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Liberality: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Spanish Curate. Act I. Sc. 1.

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.— BURNS — Address to the Unco Guid.

C. It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. Chinese Moral Maxims. Compiled by John Francis Davis, F. R. S. China, 1823. To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.— POPE — Universal Prayer.

Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him? for he partly begs To be desir'd to give. It much would please him, That of his fortunes you should make a staff To lean upon.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. 13. L. 67.

'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 170.

But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own.— WHITTIER — What the Voice Said. St. 15.