GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.
The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse. . . Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices.
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins.
Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough.
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under. '
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.
The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
