A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

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James Keller

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A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. - View Quote Details on A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody,…
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. - View Quote Details on The generous who is always just, and the just who…
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. - View Quote Details on Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we…
The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind’s great bribe. - View Quote Details on The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great…
The yardstick of generosity is not how much you give others, but how much you want in return. - View Quote Details on The yardstick of generosity is not how much you give…
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. - View Quote Details on When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity,…
Generosity is only benevolence in practice. - View Quote Details on Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. - View Quote Details on In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and…
He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. - View Quote Details on He who gives what he would as readily throw away…
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. - View Quote Details on All my experience of the world teaches me that in…