Charity

(263 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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(198 votes)   The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold

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(195 votes)   In charity there is no excess.

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

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

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(180 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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(143 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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(135 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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(118 votes)   Charity is the scope of all God's commands.

St. John Chrysosatom
345-407, Patriarch of Constantinople

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(116 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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(109 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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(92 votes)   Charity sees the need, not the cause.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(87 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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(85 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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(73 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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(71 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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