Generous Quotes

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You donâ€™t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out… — Cheryl Strayed
I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the… — Van Wyck Brooks
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it --… — Julia Child
In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad… — Stephen Harper
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit… — Knut Hamsun
And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be… — Eddie Rickenbacker
True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own… — Kate Chopin
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This… — Margaret Thatcher
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and… — Francois Fenelon
Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation… — Cordell Hull
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with… — Mary Balogh
There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a… — Roberto Benigni
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want… — John Masefield
A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. — John Milton
American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. — Elinor Glyn
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the… — H.G. Wells

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