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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.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard--Epitaph
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“When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard--Epitaph
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“Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."”
Charles Jefferys (Jeffreys or Jeffries) Quotes 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.”
John Keble Quotes Source: Christian Year--The Sunday After Ascension Day (st. 6)
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“He is truly great who hath a great charity.”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes 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.]”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes 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.”
Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes Source: Charity
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“Charity well directed should begin at home.
[Fr., Charite bien ordonne commence pay soy mem.]”
Adrian de Montluc Quotes 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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes 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.”
Matthew Prior Quotes Source: Charity
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“It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law
And who can never love from charity?”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes Source: School for Scandal (act V, sc. 1)
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“Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.”
Horace (Horatio) Smith Quotes Source: Horace in London (bk. II, ode 15)
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“Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.”
Robert Southey Quotes Source: Soldier's Wife
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“Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes 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.”
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“The living need charity more than the dead.”
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“When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”
Bible, Matthew 6:3 Quotes |
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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.”
Evelyn Underhill Quotes |
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“Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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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.”
Eva Peron Quotes |
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“And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]”
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“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.”
Phillips Brooks Quotes |
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“The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.”
J. S. Buckminster Quotes |
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