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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.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: in a letter to A. Bronson
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Guardian", no. 166
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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.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essay--On Goodness
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Charity and treating begin at home.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Wit without Money (sc. 2)
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Let them learn first to show pity at home.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Wit without Money (sc. 2)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 1)
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And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 13)
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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 2)
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And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 3)
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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 4)
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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for
charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Author: Bible
Source: I Peter (ch. IV, v. 8)
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But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first
to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is
good and acceptable before God.
Author: Bible
Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 4)
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The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici
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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of
Christian charity.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Charity (l. 573)
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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.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard--Epitaph
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When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard--Epitaph
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Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
Author: Charles Jefferys (Jeffreys or Jeffries)
Source: Charity
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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.
Author: John Keble
Source: Christian Year--The Sunday After Ascension Day (st. 6)
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He is truly great who hath a great charity.
Author: Thomas a Kempis
Source: Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III), (Dibdin's translation)
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In things essential, unity; in doubtful, liberty; in all things,
charity.
[Lat., In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus,
caritas.]
Author: Thomas a Kempis
Source: Imitation of Christ (bk. I, ch. III), (Dibdin's translation)
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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.
Author: Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)
Source: Charity
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Charity well directed should begin at home.
[Fr., Charite bien ordonne commence pay soy mem.]
Author: Adrian de Montluc
Source: La Comedie de Proverbes (act III, sc. 7)
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In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 307)
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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.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: Charity
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Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
Author: Proverb
Source: (German)
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It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law
And who can never love from charity?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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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.
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Source: School for Scandal (act V, sc. 1)
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Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.
Author: Horace (Horatio) Smith
Source: Horace in London (bk. II, ode 15)
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Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: Soldier's Wife
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Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Andria (act IV, sc. 1, 12), (Free translation)
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Author: Zoroaster
Source: None
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The living need charity more than the dead.
Author: George Arnold
Source: None
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When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Author: Bible, Matthew 6:3
Source: None
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.
Author: Evelyn Underhill
Source: None
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Author: Eva Peron
Source: None
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And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
Author: Bible
Source: None
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Author: Phillips Brooks
Source: None
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The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
Author: J. S. Buckminster
Source: None
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Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Author: Mohammed
Source: None
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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Author: Anne Baxter
Source: None
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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
Author: Henry Home
Source: None
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
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If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Author: Bob Hope
Source: None
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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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.
Author: Jack London
Source: None
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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Author: Peter Marshall
Source: None
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