Benefactors Quotes

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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. — Francis of Assisi
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? — Saint Basil
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were… — Spencer W. Kimball
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the… — Thomas Adams
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: — William Shakespeare
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we… — Chuck Baldwin
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their… — Charles A. Reich
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious… — Edward Gibbon
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the… — Al Capone
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of… — Adolf Hitler
Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I… — Hugo Chavez
A benefactor is a representative of God. — Benjamin Whichcote
It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in… — Thomas Traherne

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