Quotes with magnanimity

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  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marianne Moore War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Winston Churchill Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Saadi 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
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • William James 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
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Winston Churchill In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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