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Beneficence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
- Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
More Beneficence Quotes
- Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams
- One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe
- Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our… — John Calvin
- But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin
- Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him… — Immanuel Kant
- To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose,… — H. P. Blavatsky
- The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch
- The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford… — Henry David Thoreau
- When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday
- Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a… — Charles Horton Cooley
- I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature,… — Helen Keller