“ Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Like happiness, philanthropy was born a twin. The giving that proceeds from a desire for personal credit or satisfaction may be tax-deductible, but it is scarcely philanthropy. ”
- Emerson F. Andrews- Copy
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“ Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ”
- Talmud- Copy
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“ Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. ”
- William Langland- Copy
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“ Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. ”
- Harry Chapin- Copy
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“ Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ”
- Bob Hope- Copy
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“ Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home had she none. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. ”
- Bible- Copy
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