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Charity Quote by Mark Twain

“What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval”

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,…

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities…

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The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

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Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an…

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I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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