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Charity
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable;
love your fellows; console the afflicted;
pardon those who have done you wrong.
?Zoroaster
The living need charity more than the dead.
?George Arnold
When thou doest alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth.
?Bible, Matthew 6:3
All things are perceived in the
light of charity, and hence
under the aspect of beauty:
for beauty is simply Reality
seen with the eyes of love.
?Evelyn Underhill
Every charitable act is a stepping
stone towards heaven.
?Henry Ward Beecher
Charity separates the rich
from the poor; aid raises the
needy and sets him on the
same level with the rich.
?Eva Peron
And now abideth faith, hope
and charity, these three, but the
greatest of these is charity.
[Corinthians]
?Bible
Charity should begin at home,
but should not stay there.
?Phillips Brooks
The highest exercise of charity is
charity towards the uncharitable.
?J. S. Buckminster
Every good act is charity. A
man's true wealth hereafter
is the good that he does in
this world to his fellows.
?Mohammed
Did universal charity prevail, earth
would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
?Charles Caleb Colton
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful
things, liberty; in all things, charity.
?Anne Baxter
The truly generous is the truly wise,
and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
?Henry Home
Never let your zeal outrun your charity.
The former is but human, the latter is divine.
?Hosea Ballou
If you haven't got any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
?Bob Hope
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which
is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
?Henry David Thoreau
A bone to the dog is not charity.
Charity is the bone shared with
the dog, when you
are just as hungry as the dog.
?Jack London
The measure of life is not its
duration, but its donation.
?Peter Marshall
Charity never humiliated him
who profited from it, nor
ever bound him by the chains
of gratitude, since it was
not to him but to God
that the gift was made.
?Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Nothing is so hard for those
who abound in riches to conceive
how others can be in want.
?Jonathan Swift
