Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. – Sydney Smith
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
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. – Henry David Thoreau
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. – Sargent Shriver
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, You have the worst kind of heart trouble. – Bob Hope
Pray for the dead. And fight like hell for the living! – Mother Jones
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. – Swami Vivekananda
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 clergyman, sportsman and author.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader
I’m not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I’m doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. – George Soros
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have. – Christopher Morley
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude. – Bessie A. Stanley
…the most useful and influential people in [America] are those who take the deepest interest in institutions that exist for the purpose of making the world better. – Woodrow Wilson
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. – Virginia Woolf
Charity creates a multitude of sins. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. – Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.
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