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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

The Hiding Place

By giving to yourself you are fulfilled, abundant and generous. You have spare love to share.

How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

Innocent

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

The children nodded in agreement, and rose from the table. Leaving their dirty breakfast dishes behind, which is not a good thing to do in general but perfectly acceptable in the face of an emergency.

The Reptile Room

I lay my cheek on his solid back. I realize this is the real Jacade. The man who’s strong and fierce, but vulnerable and damaged. Confident and dominating, but generous and kind.

Revival

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.

The Sceptical Chymist

One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.

Somebody tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

The Sea

It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

Shiver

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

Summer Island

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

Soulless

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

Sleepless

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

My Dream of Heaven

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

Nine Stories