At thirty man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves then dies the same
Quotes about magnanimity (16 Quotes)
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity but bet on the other one - this is business
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
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.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
In War Resolution. In Defeat Defiance. In Victory Magnanimity. In Peace Goodwill.
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity 'Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men the Indians in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity.... How can we doubt that these people so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities have been justly conquered.
God Most High has said, 'Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue' ... Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, '... and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant.'
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace.
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.