Magnanimity Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Magnanimity


A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it. Henry Home.	1
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle. Jane Porter.	2
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. Hazlitt.	3
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise. La Rochefoucauld.	4
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. Alexander Pope.	5
If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous. Quarles.	6