Best Beneficent Quotes
88 Beneficent quotes by 73 unique authors
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men;…
— William Henry Harrison
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it…
— H.G. Wells
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The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society.
— Unknown Author
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As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man…
— David Ogilvy
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Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and…
— Stephen Baxter
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It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is…
— A J P Taylor
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Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it…
— Albert J. Nock
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The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is…
— Mabel Collins
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There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --…
— Odell Shepard
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And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU.…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,…
— David Hume
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If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture…
— Joseph Addison
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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
— George Eliot
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Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The…
— Thomas S. Monson
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He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world.…
— Ellen Glasgow
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Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.
— Unknown Author
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Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.
— Pope Julius II
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What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if…
— Marianne Williamson
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It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is…
— Harry S. Truman
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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be…
— Mark Twain
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So…
— Herbert Spencer
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Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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