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“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
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“Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in the "Guardian", no. 166
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“Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by
interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good
works and almsdeeds which she did.”
Bible Quotes Source: Acts (ch. IX, v. 36)
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“I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.”
Bible Quotes Source: Job (ch. XXIX, v. 15)
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“But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy
right hand doeth:
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in
secret himself shall reward thee openly.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. 6, v. 3-4)
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“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. VI, v. 1)
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“He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. I, st. 24)
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“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. XLIX)
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“His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;
The long remembered beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 149)
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“Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 161)
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“A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
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“Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 16)
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“Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send;
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear,
He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy--The Epitaph
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“To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. VI, l. 247), (Pope's translation)
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“It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XIV, l. 65), (Pope's translation)
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“In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 505), (Pope's translation)
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“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun.
Oh! it was pitiful!
Near a whole city full,
Home had she none.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: The Bridge of Sighs
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“He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine,
would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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“In misery's darkest caverns known,
His useful care was ever nigh,
Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 5), in Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (1782)
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“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis
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“Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.”
William Langland Quotes Source: Piers Plowman--Passus (18, l. 61)
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“Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal (pt. II, VIII)
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“He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole
world.
[Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (II, 383)
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“To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
Horace Mann Quotes Source: Lectures on Education (lecture VI)
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