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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. ↗

— W. H. Davies

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We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and I did love him, what came of it?. . . What came of it was that I tore my caftan in two, shared it with my neighbor, and we were both left half naked, in accordance with the Russian proverb which says: If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them. But science says: Love yourself before all, because everything in the world is based on self-interest. If you love only yourself, you will set your affairs up properly, and your caftan will also remain in one piece. And economic truth adds that the more properly arranged personal affairs and, so to speak, whole caftans there are in society, the firmer its foundations are and the better arranged its common cause. It follows that by acquiring for everyone, as it were, and working so that my neighbor will have something more than a torn caftan, not from private, isolated generosities now, but as a result of universal prosperity. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#prosperity #science #love

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward. ↗

— Carol Ryrie Brink

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God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ’s sake, and from no other motive. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#giving #guilt #attitude