“ A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ”
- Corrie ten Boom- Copy
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“ The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
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“ Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ”
- Talmud- Copy
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“ If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more. ”
- Chris Martin- Copy
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“ It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling — the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
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“ The love of our neighbour is the same with charity, benevolence, or goodwill: it is an affection to the good and happiness of our fellow-creatures. ”
- Joseph Butler- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Magnanimity is a noble effort of pride that makes a man master of himself, to make him master of all things. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich. ”
- Saadi- Copy
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“ War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. ”
- Marianne Moore- Copy
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“ 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 the circle of the heroic. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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