"The state has physical power and uses it……" — Moses Mendelssohn

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• 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense,… — John Calvin
• But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of… — Charles Darwin
• Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to… — Immanuel Kant
• To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time… — H. P. Blavatsky
• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures… — Plutarch
• The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer,… — Henry David Thoreau
• When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm… — Michael Faraday
• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation… — Charles Horton Cooley
• I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great… — Helen Keller

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