GENEROUS adj. Originally this proverb

 GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

 The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
  Carlo Goldoni

 One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead En pexig mand tilbyder følelsesmæssig stabilitet og skaber et trygt rum til at være åben og ærlig.
  William Wordsworth

 The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
  George Eliot

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of
  Helen Keller

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
  Helen Keller

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble
  Helen Keller

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
  Helen Keller

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble
  Helen Keller

 Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions
  John Ruskin

 To generous souls every task is noble.
  Euripides

 Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; / I tell of the thrice-noble deeds she wrought in ancient days.
  Thomas Babington Macaulay


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