CHARITY

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(906 votes)  With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(905 votes)  It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(833 votes)  Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(682 votes)  In charity there is no excess.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(663 votes)  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
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(652 votes)  You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(650 votes)  Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(645 votes)  Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Francis Atterbury
1663-1732, British Anglican Clergyman, Controversialist

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(640 votes)  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(634 votes)  Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(630 votes)  Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(626 votes)  Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(623 votes)  The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold

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(620 votes)  He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(616 votes)  Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(616 votes)  Charity sees the need, not the cause.

German Proverb
Sayings of German Origin

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(601 votes)  I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(589 votes)  Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

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(581 votes)  A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

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(575 votes)  Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(568 votes)  If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(564 votes)  Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(550 votes)  Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(535 votes)  Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(517 votes)  As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(509 votes)  Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Bronte
1818-1848, British Novelist, Poet

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(508 votes)  Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(503 votes)  Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(502 votes)  The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(497 votes)  To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Horace Mann
1796-1859, American Educator

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(496 votes)  As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

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(494 votes)  Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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(490 votes)  Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(486 votes)  The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(484 votes)  The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Henry Home

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(484 votes)  They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Ogden Nash
1902-1971, American Humorous Poet

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(484 votes)  To give requires good sense.

Ovid
BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet

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(480 votes)  The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Lawrence Durrell
1912-1990, British Author

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(479 votes)  If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Bob Hope
1903-, American Comedian, Actor

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(477 votes)  The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

John Boyle O'Reilly
1844-1890, Irish Author

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(472 votes)  Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

David Duchovny
1960-, American Actor

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(472 votes)  Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.

The Koran
c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible

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(468 votes)  A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(468 votes)  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
1876-1916, American Novelist

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(462 votes)  Charity is the scope of all God's commands.

St. John Chrysosatom
345-407, Patriarch of Constantinople

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(458 votes)  Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American Psychologist

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(458 votes)  The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Saadi

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(453 votes)  Teach us to give and not count the cost.

St. Ignatius Loyola
1495-1556, Spanish Theologian, Founder of the Jesuits

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(446 votes)  The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

Proverb

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(439 votes)  Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques BTNigne Bossuet
1627-1704, Catholic Churchman, Pulpit Orator

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