A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will. — John Donne Copy Share Image
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is. — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
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