Firm Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image “To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firm Generous Kindness Wisdom
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Knowing when and how to say what should be said is a sign of wisdom. — Varsha Sharma Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need. — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
“Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system,… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“Both wisdom, and generosity derive from God. And when one submits themselves completely to Him, one soon becomes like Him: wise and generous.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist. — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone. — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
