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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Magnanimous of you.'His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo. -- Julie Anne Long
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger. -- Stephen Covey
It's Dorian, by the way. Not 'Your Highness'.Very Well.Say it.Say what?Say my name. Say, 'Very well, Dorian'.She rolled her eyesIf it pleases Your Magnanimous Holiness, I shall call you by your first name.Magnanimous Holiness? Oh, I like that one. -- Sarah J. Maas
Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance. -- Karin Fossum
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. -- Leon Trotsky
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. -- Elliot Richardson
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies. -- Gretchen Rubin
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. -- Sylvia Plath
Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving. -- Kim Dae-jung
how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity? -- Laura Lippman
The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled. -- Sam Keen
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. -- John Ruskin
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me -- George Eliot
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. -- Mark Twain
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. -- George Washington
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. -- Aristotle
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. -- Xun Zi
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. -- Cheryl Strayed
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it. -- Epictetus
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
Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance. -- Eric Hoffer
It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing. -- Greta Gerwig
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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
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion. -- Orison Swett Marden
We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else. -- May Sarton
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

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