While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence. — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
When one door closes another door opens, you must always trust in the benevolence of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people,… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Through wisdom, we can easily bear the burdens of this life and respond to our fellow man with charity and patience. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“sympathy, loyalty, benevolence, mercy, humanity, are observed in human beings.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
