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Charity Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
- The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
- There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
- Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
- Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
- I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
- A great man is always willing to be little.
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock…
- Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of…
More Charity Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — Saint Augustine
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. — Hosea Ballou
- No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. — Bernard Baruch
- Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do. — Yogi Berra
- The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused… — Conrad Black
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop