The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky! — Saadi Copy Share Image
Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout — Dean Alfange Copy Share Image
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“We saw around us on every side traces of the Divine wisdom and beneficence; and our hearts overflowed with love and veneration… — Johann David Wyss Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I… — George Canning Copy Share Image
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
