To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life… — James Payn Copy Share Image
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and… — S. S. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent. — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
