Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.” — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting… — Mencius Copy Share Image
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“the feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and… — Inazo Nitobe Copy Share Image
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
You are so to put forth the power that God has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give,… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
“Give, but know how and what to give! Plant your seeds; nurture them well for the best fruits; from the fruits you… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and… — Saint Augustine 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
A person who embraces the desire to find wholeness within his own being, soon learns the importance of tending to relationships, caring… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.' 'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“The megalomania of the genes does not mean that benevolence and cooperation cannot evolve, any more than the law of gravity proves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
