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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783
A charitable man is like an apple tree--he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even should we be deceived, still the good to ourselves resulting from a kind act is worth more than the trifle by which we purchase it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books, Aug. 30, 1842
Charity is the note that resolves the discord.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Charity begins at home.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The living need charity more than the dead.
GEORGE ARNOLD, The Jolly Old Pedagogue
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
The bread of charity is life itself for the needy; he who withholds it is a man of blood.
- He that distributeth not
- That which he hath received--
- His food, his drink, his sustenance--
- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer--
- Such a low man as he, they say, is like
- Unto a lack of rain.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA, Iti-Vuttaka
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
As the furnace purifies the silver, so does charity rid wealth of its dross.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
CHINUA ACHEBE, Anthills of the Savannah
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
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