Liberality

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  • He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.
    • Francis Bacon, Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor (1730), p. 298. Compare: The English Theophrastus: or, The manners of the age (1702), p. 268: "He that defers Charity till Death, is rather Liberal of another Man's, than of his own".

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations [edit]

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 437.
  • He that's liberal
    To all alike, may do a good by chance,
    But never out of judgment.
  • Then gently scan your brother man,
    Still gentler sister woman;
    Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang,
    To step aside is human.
  • It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
    • Chinese Moral Maxims. Compiled by John Francis Davis, F. R. S. China, 1823.
  • The liberal soul shall be made fat.
    • Proverbs. XI. 25.
  • Shall I say to Cæsar
    What you require of him? for he partly begs
    To be desir'd to give. It much would please him,
    That of his fortunes you should make a staff
    To lean upon.

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  • If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
  • There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
  • Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.
  • The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
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