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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

“Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.”

Character Spirit Generous Memorable Poetic Memorable Characters

Author:Lawrence Millman

“The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.”

Moving Spirit Water Blood Flow Warm Generous Streams Fountain Particles Vigor

Book:The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed

Source: The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed

“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

“I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.”

Men Home Spirit Father Individual Mom Importance Fellows South Raised My Mom Caring Generous South Africa Senators Fellow Man Back Home

Author:Adhir Kalyan

“Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.”

Feels Spirit Quality Compassion And Love Generosity Generous Princess

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.”

Ifs Heart Spirit Rich Wind Fit Taste Criticism Communicate Excellent Generous Champagne Sour Muddy Sparkling Vapid Colic

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“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

“Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.”

Mind Spirit Justice Blood Goodness Generous Temper Sweetness

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“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

“there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.”

Mind Body Earth Spirit Creative Crime Generous Yield Idleness Trinity Stagnation Mind Body Mind Body And Spirit

Author:Eleanor Dark

“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”