Beneficence Quotes
31 quotes by 25 authors
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
— Jane Addams
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
— Ann Radcliffe
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
— John Calvin
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But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all…
— Charles Darwin
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he…
— Immanuel Kant
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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these…
— Plutarch
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The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which…
— Michael Faraday
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize…
— Helen Keller
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There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own…
— Samuel Johnson
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Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person…
— Dawna Markova
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The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
— Gautama Buddha
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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
— Samuel Johnson
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
— Moses Mendelssohn
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The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of…
— Thomas Paine
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The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
— Thomas Paine
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'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with…
— Austin Farrer
Who Wrote These Beneficence Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 31 Beneficence Quotes as follows: