Charity Quotes

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Charity is a term which refers to the quality or virtue of unlimited love and kindness, and the practice of benevolent giving and caring.

The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act. There are a number of philosophies about charity, often associated with religion. Effective altruism is the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.

See also: Charity as a Virtue, Charity and Charities, Generosity, Altruism, Altruism Quotes, Generosity Quotes, and Benevolence Quotes

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Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. ~ Thomas Aquinas

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead. – Thomas Aquinas

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity.- Anne Swetchine

He who has no charity deserves no mercy.- English Proverb

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.- Samuel Johnson

No one has ever become poor by giving.- Anne Frank

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.- Mother Teresa

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.- Bob Hope

Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.- Moliere

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.- Thomas Fuller

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their voaction, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.- Charles Dickens

A rich man without charity is a rouge; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.- Henry Fielding

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.- Conrad Hilton

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

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.- Henry A. Wallace

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.- Bodhidharma

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.- Maimonides

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.- Martin Luther King Jr.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. – Mahatma Gandhi

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.- Simone de Beauvoir

Doing notheing for others is the undoing of ourselves.- Horace Mann

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.- Abraham Lincoln

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Raja Ravi Varma (1848 - 1906) - Charity, Sri Chitra Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram

In a just world, there would be no possibility of ‘charity’. ~ Bertrand Russell

  • No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.
    • Hermann Adler, quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition), p. 849
  • Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
    • Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (c. 1270)
  • It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
    • Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (c. 1270)
  • So give to the poor; I’m begging you, I’m warning you, I’m commanding you, I’m ordering you.
    • St. Augustine Sermon 61:13 [1]
    • Alternate version:
      • Give then to the poor; I beg, I advise, I charge, I command you.
        • Sermon 11:13 on the New Testament [2]
  • If you see charity, you see the Trinity.
    • Augustine of Hippo, De Trinitate (c. 417), 8.12
  • “But whom do I treat unjustly,” you say, “by keeping what is my own?” Tell me, what is your own? What did you bring into this life? From where did you receive it? It is as if someone were to take the first seat in the theater, then bar everyone else from attending, so that one person alone enjoys what is offered for the benefit of all in common — this is what the rich do. They seize common goods before others have the opportunity, then claim them as their own by right of preemption. For if we all took only what was necessary to satisfy our own needs, giving the rest to those who lack, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, and no one would be in need.
    • Basil of Caesarea, Homily 6, “I Shall Tear Down My Barns,” C. P. Schroeder, trans., in Saint Basil on Social Justice (2009), p. 69
  • Who are the greedy? Those who are not satisfied with what suffices for their own needs. Who are the robbers? Those who take for themselves what rightfully belongs to everyone. And you, are you not greedy? Are you not a robber? The things you received in trust as a stewardship, have you not appropriated them for yourself? Is not the person who strips another of clothing called a thief? And those who do not clothe the naked when they have the power to do so, should they not be called the same? The bread you are holding back is for the hungry, the clothes you keep put away are for the naked, the shoes that are rotting away with disuse are for those who have none, the silver you keep buried in the earth is for the needy. You are thus guilty of injustice toward as many as you might have aided, and did not.
    • Basil of Caesarea, Homily 6, “I Shall Tear Down My Barns,” C. P. Schroeder, trans., in Saint Basil on Social Justice (2009), p. 70
  • Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
    • Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet quoted in Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations (2007) by M. P. Singh, p. 96.
  • He is rich who hath enough to be charitable; and it is hard to be so poor that a noble mind may not find a way to this piece of goodness.
    • Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642).
  • Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.
    • Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), ii. 4.
  • Certainly it is a heaven upon earth to have a man’s mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
    • Francis Bacon, Essays, 1, ‘Of Truth’.
  • In charity there is no excess.
    • Francis Bacon, Essays, 13, ‘Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature’.
  • Without all doubt, charity to the poor is a direct and obligatory duty upon all Christians.
    • Edmund Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
  • When a member of our physical body is diseased and the whole body has to labor to restore it to health, we do not despise this diseased member or hold it under obligation because it needs all this assistance.
    • John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), § 7.2, p. 39.
  • Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold. He who said, “This is my body,” and made it so by his word, is the same that said, “You saw me hungry and you gave me no food. As you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.” Honor him then by sharing your property with the poor. For what God needs is not golden chalices but golden souls.
    • John Chrysostom Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Homily L
  • When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
    • Dinah Craik, Christian’s Mistake (1865). p. 64.
  • You shall not turn away the needy, but shall share everything with your brother, and shall not say that it is your own, for if you are sharers in the imperishable, how much more in the things which perish?
    • Didache, 4.8.
  • Charity and treating begin at home.
    • John Fletcher, Wit without Money (c. 1614; published 1639), scene 2.
  • Let them learn first to show pity at home.
    • John Fletcher, Wit without Money (c. 1614; published 1639), scene 2. Marston—Histrio-Matrix. 3. 165
  • I don’t believe in charity; I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it’s humiliating. It goes from top to bottom.
    Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and learns from the other.
    I have a lot to learn from other people.

    • Eduardo Galeano, David Barsamian (2004) Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine. p. 146
  • It is an affirmative command to give tzedaka to the poor of Israel. … Anyone who sees a poor man begging alms and turns away his glance from him and does not give him tzedaka transgresses a negative command, as it is said, “You shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand to your needy brother” (Deuteronomy 15:7).
    • Shlomo Ganzfried as translated by George Horowith in The Spirit of the Jewish Law (New York: 1953)
  • Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
    His pity gave ere charity began.

    • Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 161.
  • No farther seek his merits to disclose,
    Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
    (There they alike in trembling hope repose),
    The bosom of his Father and his God.

    • Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750), Epitaph.
  • Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfilment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
    • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) (1837). Vol.III, page 278.
  • There is no charitable purpose which is not a benevolent purpose.
    • Lord Langdale, M.R., Kendall v. Granger (1842), 5 Beav. 302; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 26.
  • Give for alms those things that are within; and see, everything will be clean for you.
    • Luke 11:41 NRSV.
  • We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.
    • Maimonides, as quoted in A Maimonides Reader (1972) by Isadore Twersky, p. 135
  • The Gita … explains the basis for the Hindu principle of charity as Narayana-seva, i.e., serving God by serving one’s fellow human… This is also the basis for Gandhi’s concept of ahimsa. Krishna asserts that generosity (dana) and compassion (daya) are qualities that arise ‘from me alone’.
    • Rajiv Malhotra: Indra’s Net. p. 183, 1st ed.
  • Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
    • Horace Mann, Thoughts (1867).
  • Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.
    • Anthony de Mello, Awareness (1992), p. 19
  • What is a charitable heart? It is a heart which is burning with love for the whole creation, for men, for the birds, for the beasts … for all creatures. He who has such a heart cannot see or call to mind a creature without his eyes being filled with tears by reason of the immense compassion which seizes his heart; a heart which is softened and can no longer bear to see or learn from others of any suffering, even the smallest pain being inflicted upon a creature. That is why such a man never ceases to pray for the animals … [He is] … moved by the infinite pity which reigns in the hearts of those who are becoming united with God.
    • Isaac of Nineveh Mystic Treatises, cited in Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1976), p. 111; also cited and discussed in A. M. Allchin, The World is a Wedding (1978), p. 85. Quoted in Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (1994), p. 56.
  • Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
    • Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393).
  • I do not see any difference between a gift to keep in repair what is called “God’s house” and a gift to keep in repair the churchyard round it, which is often called “God’s acre.”
    • North, J., In re VaughanVaughan v. Thomas (1886), L. R. 33 C. D. 192; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 26.
  • Ὁ πλήρης ἀγάπης ἄνθρωπος μετά τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τῆς καρδίας βλέπει τὴν εἰκόνα Κυρίου ἐν τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ.
    • The man who is full of charity sees, through the eyes of the heart, the Image of the Lord in his brother.
      • Saint Pachomius, On Charity, 3.
  • In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
    But all mankind’s concern is charity.

    • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 307.
  • Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.
    • Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (1996), p. 207 (ISBN 978-0-06-105905-6)
  • We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.
    Faith — in the soundness of democracy in the midst of dictatorships.
    Hope — renewed because we know so well the progress we have made.
    Charity — in the true spirit of that grand old word. For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves.

    • Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (27 June 1936).
  • In a just world, there would be no possibility of ‘charity’.
    • Bertrand Russell, On charity (1932).
  • You will remember that Christ said, “Judge not lest ye be judged.” That principle I do not think you would find was popular in the law courts of Christian countries. I have known in my time quite a number of judges who were very earnest Christians, and none of them felt that they were acting contrary to Christian principles in what they did. Then Christ says, “Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” That is a very good principle. … Then there is one other maxim of Christ which I think has a great deal in it, but I do not find that it is very popular among some of our Christian friends. He says, “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor.” That is a very excellent maxim, but, as I say, it is not much practised. All these, I think, are good maxims, although they are a little difficult to live up to. I do not profess to live up to them myself; but then, after all, it is not quite the same thing as for a Christian.
    • Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian (1927), “The Character of Christ”.
  • Iniquum est conlapsis manum non porrigere; commune hoc ius generis humani est.
    • It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
      • Seneca the Elder, Controversiae , Book 1, Chapter 1, sect. 14; translation from Norman T. Pratt Seneca’s Drama (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983) p. 140.
  • Charity itself fulfills the law.
    And who can sever love from charity?

    • William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost (c. 1595-6), Act IV, scene 3, line 364.
  • Charity,
    Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

    • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 2, line 68.
  • A tear for pity and a hand
    Open as day for melting charity.

    • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act IV, scene 4, line 31.
  • I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that “charity begins at home”
    And his, I presume, is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.

    • Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777), Act V, scene 1.
  • The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. … The higher giving is anonymous giving.
    • Gene Simmons, interview with Radio.com (July 6, 2016)
  • For true evangelical faith…cannot lay dormant; but manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love; it…clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.
    • Menno Simons Why I Do Not Cease Teaching and Writing, 1539.
  • When we buy new clothes not to keep ourselves warm but to look “well-dressed” we are not providing for any important need. We would not be sacrificing anything significant if we were to continue to wear our old clothes, and give the money to famine relief. By doing so, we would be preventing another person from starving. It follows from what I have said earlier that we ought to give money away, rather than spend it on clothes which we do not need to keep us warm. To do so is not charitable, or generous. Nor is it the kind of act which philosophers and theologians have called “supererogatory” – an act which it would be good to do, but not wrong not to do. On the contrary, we ought to give the money away, and it is wrong not to do so.
    • Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972).
  • To give to the needy alone is charity. All the rest is investment for a return.
    • Thiruvalluvar Tirukkural 221.
  • To receive is bad, even for good cause; and to give is good even if there is no Heaven.
    • Thiruvalluvar in Tirukkural 222.
  • Wiping out the hunger of the Have-nots, is the treasury in which the Haves should deposit their wealth.
    • Thiruvalluvar in Tirukkural 226.
  • Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law. It does the work of all other graces without any instrument but its own immediate virtue. For as the love to sin makes a man sin against all his own reason, and all the discourses of wisdom, and all the advices of his friends, and without temptation, and without opportunity, so does the love of God; it makes a man chaste without the laborious arts of fasting and exterior disciplines, temperate in the midst of feasts, and is active enough to choose it without any intermedial appetites, and reaches at glory through the very heart of grace without any other arms but those of love. It is a grace that loves God for himself, and our neighbours for God. The consideration of God’s goodness and bounty, the experience of those profitable and excellent emanations from him, may be, and most commonly are, the first motive of our love; but when we are once entered, and have tasted the goodness of God, we love the spring for its own excellency, passing from passion to reason, from thanking to adoring, from sense to spirit, from considering ourselves to an union with God: and this is the image and little representation of heaven; it is beatitude in picture, or rather the infancy and beginnings of glory.
    • Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (1650)
  • There is a saying, Charity begins at home; and sometimes it is used as a squalid slogan to justify selfishness, to justify us for not bothering about people who are not near to us and dear to us. Family and friends have the first call on us; but the whole point of the saying is that it is there we begin, it is there that we learn how to love, so that, starting from there, our love may grow and grow till it gathers to itself the whole world.
    • Gerald Vann, The Two Trees (1948). London: Collins, p. 31
  • It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized (but for this very reason ethically irrational) character of purely commercial relationships that evokes the suspicion, never clearly expressed but all the more strongly felt, of ethical religions. For every purely personal relationship of man to man, of whatever sort and even including complete enslavement, may be subjected to ethical requirements and ethically regulated. This is true because the structures of these relationships depend upon the individual wills of the participants, leaving room in such relations for manifestations of the virtue of charity. But this is not the situation in the realm of economically rationalised relationships, where personal control is exercised in inverse ratio to the degree of rational differentiation of the economic structure.
    • Max Weber, Sociology of Religion (1922), pp. 216-217
  • The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
    • Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Complete Works (New York: 1989), p. 1079, ¶ 3-4
  • It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
    • Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Complete Works (New York: 1989), p. 1079, ¶ 5
  • It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
    • Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4
  • It is not by ruling over his neighbours, or by seeking to hold the supremacy over those that are weaker, or by being rich, and showing violence towards those that are inferior, that happiness is found; nor can any one by these things become an imitator of God. But these things do not at all constitute His majesty. On the contrary he who takes upon himself the burden of his neighbour; he who, in whatsoever respect he may be superior, is ready to benefit another who is deficient; he who, whatsoever things he has received from God, by distributing these to the needy, becomes a god to those who receive: he is an imitator of God.
    • Author unknown, Epistle to Diognetus
  • In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.
    • John Quincy Adams, letter to A. Branson (30 July 1838).
  • Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
    • Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 166.
  • The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.
    • Francis Bacon, EssayOn Goodness.
  • No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
    • Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
  • Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
    • I Corinthians, XIII. 1.
  • Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
    • I Corinthians, XIII. 2.
  • Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
    • I Corinthians, XIII. 4.
  • And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
    • I Corinthians, XIII. 13.
  • True Charity, a plant divinely nurs’d.
    • William Cowper, Charity, line 573.
  • When your own courtyard thirsts, do not pour the water abroad.
    • Greek Proverb
  • Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
    Chief among the “blessed three.”

    • Charles Jefferys, Charity.
  • In silence, * * *
    Steals on soft-handed Charity,
    Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,
    By time and place,
    Till not a woe the bleak world see,
    But finds her grace.

    • John Keble, The Christian YearThe Sunday After Ascension Day, Stanza 6.
  • He is truly great who hath a great charity.
    • Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter III. Dibdin’s translation
  • In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.
    • In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity.
    • Rupertus Meldenius. So attributed by Canon Farrar at Croyden Church Congress, 1877. Also attributed to Melancthon. Quoted as “A gude saying o’ auld Mr. Guthrie” in A Crack aboot the Kirk, appended to Memoirs of Norman Maclood, D.D., Volume I, p. 340.
  • All crush’d and stone-cast in behaviour,
    She stood as a marble would stand,
    Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour
    In silence wrote on in the sand.

    • Joaquin Miller, Charity.
  • Charité bien ordonné commence par soy meme.
    • Charity well directed should begin at home.
    • Adrien de Montluc, La Comédie de Proverbes, Act III, scene 7.
  • Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
    • I Peter, IV. 8.
  • Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
    She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
    Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
    And opens in each heart a little Heaven.

    • Matthew Prior, Charity.
  • Our charity begins at home,
    And mostly ends where it begins.

    • Horace Smith, Horace in London, Book II. Ode 15
  • Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
    • Robert Southey, Soldier’s Wife.
  • Let them learn first to show piety at home.
    • I Timothy. V. 4.
  • Charity — gently to hear, kindly to judge.
    • Attributed to William Shakespeare, p. 46 (other sources include only the phrase “gently to hear, kindly to judge”).
  • Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
    • Hugh Blair, Sermons (1824), p. 428
  • Charity is that rational and constant affection, which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.
    • Confucius, p. 46.
  • Why should not our solemn duties, and our hastening end, render us so united, that personal contention would be impossible, in a general sympathy quickened by the breath of a forbearing and pitying charity?
    • Henry Giles, p. 47.
  • If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.
    • Francis Quarles, p. 47.
  • A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
    • Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 47.
  • We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
    • William Morley Punshon, p. 47.
  • An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
    • Lydia Maria Child, p. 47.
  • Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this — love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.
    • Frederick William Robertson, p. 47.
  • There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.
    • Sir Philip Sidney, p. 47.
  • I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.
    • Mrs. Jameson, p. 48.
  • Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own.
    • François Fénelon, p. 48.

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