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“Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.”

Heart Reason Youth Illusion Generous Spoil Wrinkles

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.”

Men Heart Feet Benefits Generosity Generous Generous Man

Author:Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.”

Heart Compassion Kindness Generous Compassionate Tenderness Icy Great Hearts Tender Hearts Generous Heart

Author:Robert Frost

“Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.”

Heart Grief Fate Wounds Bitter Generous Insult Distress Jest Blockheads Generous Heart

Book:The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

“The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!”

Ifs Mind Heart Goodness Conscious Mercy Desert Generous Heavenly Generous Heart

Book:The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”