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55 Magnanimity quotes by 49 unique authors

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. — Geoffrey Wood
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. — Luc de Clapiers
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield. — Victor Hugo
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in… — Symeon the New Theologian
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity. — Jim Broadbent
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value… — W. Somerset Maugham
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a… — William Cowper
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass… — Paramahansa Yogananda
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem… — Mark Crispin Miller
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore… — John Quincy Adams
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. — John Keats
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and… — J. William Fulbright
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear,… — Robert Toombs
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. — Virginia Woolf
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that… — John Irving
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this… — Thrity Umrigar
The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a… — Julian Barnes

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