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“I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.”

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.”

Want Feels Years Wells Long Feelings Film Spirit Grows Ten Hollywood Critics Come Up Feel Good Mediums Noses Generous Thumbs Best Film Generous Spirit

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.”

Spirit Poverty Industry Despair Casts Generous Resolution Cows Generous Spirit

Author:Joseph Addison

“A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.”

Should Country Spirit Poor Powerful Weak Accounts Generous Prosperous Generous Spirit

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.”

Spirit Gratitude Benefits Generous Eloquent Generous Spirit

Book:Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author

Source: Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author

“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire”