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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
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 begins at home.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
The living need charity more than the dead.
GEORGE ARNOLD, The Jolly Old Pedagogue
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