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

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.
  • Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, Act I, scene 1.

• Then gently scan your brother man,
  Still gentler sister woman;
  Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang,
  To step aside is human.
  • Robert Burns, Address to the Unco Guid.

• 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.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 13, line 67.

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• If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.
  • Joseph Joubert

• Liberality consists rather in giving seasonably than much.
  • Jean de La Bruyère

• There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
  • Proverbs 11:24

• Liberality consists less in giving profusely, than in giving judiciously.
  • Jean de La Bruyère

• The liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
  • Proverbs 11:25