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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
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
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. -- Luc de Clapiers
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. -- Ambrose Bierce
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle. -- Jane Porter
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity. -- Jim Broadbent
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
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness. -- Democritus
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. -- J. William Fulbright
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield. -- Victor Hugo
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. -- Zachary Taylor
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. -- Zachary Taylor
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. -- Henry David Thoreau
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. -- Frederick Law Olmsted
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. -- John Keats
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. -- Marianne Moore
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. -- Saadi
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
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore. -- Bob Dylan
If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous. -- Francis Quarles
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust. -- Henry David Thoreau
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion. -- Symeon the New Theologian
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors. -- William James
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. -- Robert Toombs
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life. -- Sebastian Coe
Do not say that faith in Christ alone can save you, for this is not possible if you do not attain love for Him, which is demonstrated by deeds. As for mere faith: "The demons also believe and tremble" (James, 2:19). The action of love consists in heartfelt good deeds toward one's neighbor, magnanimity, patience, and sober use of things. -- Maximus the Confessor
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity. -- Germaine Greer
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear. -- Seneca the Younger
how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity? -- Laura Lippman
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference. -- Ambrose Bierce
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. -- Geoffrey Wood
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. -- Cornel West
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. -- William Hazlitt
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." -- Kenny Smith
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. -- Washington Allston
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor? -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. -- Jonathan Swift
In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness. -- Zicheng Hong
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business. -- Mark Twain
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. -- Socrates
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality. -- William Hazlitt
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another. -- Charles Caleb Colton
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in. -- William Cowper
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects? -- Alexander the Great

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