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Quotations by Subject: Charity
(Related Subjects: Love, Kindness)
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.: Edwin Arnold
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.: Francis Maitland Balfour
The living need charity more than the dead.: George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866)
Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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)
In charity there is no excess.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625)
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
Charity begins at home.: Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Andria
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton


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