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A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.


Lord Greville

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He is great who confers the most benefits.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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RACHEL JOYCE He's a lovable man. He opens up his heart and gives his heart to everyone.
DAVID FOSTER Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL When he receives assurances that he will have custody of his son.
GREG CRAIG He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.
RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
BIBLE As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
BOOK OF PROVERBS CHAPTER 23 VERSE 7 Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him tha...
BERNARD M. BARUCH A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for h...
NAPOLEON HILL A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to Go...
SOURCE UNKNOWN What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or hi...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burn...
BIBLE Those whom they call upon, themselves seek the means of access to their Lord-- whoever of them is ne...
QURAN He puts us here to make an eternal difference.
He puts us here to show everyone around us how m...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
MENCIUS The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.
MENCIUS From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES COUSTEAU As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
BIBLE As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]
BIBLE As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7].
BIBLE But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go...
ALFRED DOBLIN I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB He really kicked the whole thing off with his generous donation.
ELIZABETH JOHNSTON Bill has stated many times Penn Hills has been good to him. He made most of his money in the communi...
FRANK PECORA The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And er...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
JOHN BUCHAN (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose bro...
BIBLE The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menius.
MENIUS The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menicus.
MENICUS The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius.
MECIUS Surely your Lord-- He best knows who goes astray from His way, and He best knows those who follow th...
QURAN There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the g...
ZELDA FITZGERALD I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet...
CHARLES STANLEY The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
MENCIUS If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
GERMAINE GREER A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social ...
JOSEPHUS DANIELS A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
BIBLE He has a long history of independence and who he receives money from has nothing to do with his posi...
RYAN TOOHEY Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage ...
JOHN BURROUGHS A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the plane...
MICHAEL FLATLEY And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his pl...
BIBLE Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI His Lotus Feet dwell in the minds of His devotees. Without the Transcendent Lord, all are plundered....
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary—if at the same time he ...
JOHN NEWTON He was a family man. He adored his daughters. He totally adored his daughters.
WALLIS HUTCHKO Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficia...
PAULO COELHO A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
RICK RIORDAN He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth h...
BIBLE If a man is good in his heart, then he is an ethical member of any group in society. If he is bad in...
DR. ELMER HESS He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in ...
JACOPO SANNAZARO When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kind...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB . . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at ...
MARK TWAIN The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug...
G. K. CHESTERTON I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his ...
CHARLES STANLEY But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because...
BIBLE He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.
JOHN WILLIAMSON But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and th...
BIBLE He was a good spiritual kid. He had his mind and his heart in the right place.
JACK BURTON The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the o...
HELEN ROWLAND The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the ...
HELEN ROWLAND God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she sh...
HEBREW PROVERB Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.
JEREMY BENTHAM We know Lincoln was generous with his immediate staff - he gave them things.
TOM SCHWARTZ The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was...
HENRY JAMES There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance...
SARAH CASTILLE He pulled us out of a lot of bad situations with his feet and his arm.
CHARLIE MCFALL As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. H...
FRANCINE RIVERS He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.
DAVID SMITH That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying t...
LYNDELL ZANOTTI If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his ...
NELSON MANDELA Abba Zeno said, 'If a man wants God to hear his prayer quickly, then before he prays for anything el...
ABBA ZENO Rusty ran with his heart. His hands held the wheel, but it was his heart he raced with.
BILL WEBER I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to...
HAZEL B. WEST He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his ton...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He rais...
AKHENATON He was the typical eccentric, eclectic, simple man. By a lot of society standards, he may not have b...
ROBERTA BARTHOLDI It's about footwork. He's keeping his feet underneath him and using his legs to drive the ball out t...
KEN MACHA He who labours as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX And on his brest a bloodie crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose ...
EDMUND SPENSER The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the op...
HELEN ROWLAND When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets t...
HELEN ROWLAND For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK