"Every evil to which we do not succumb…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Benefactor Quotes

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• When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He… — Thomas Adams
• Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and… — Chuck Baldwin
• The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as… — R. J. Hollingdale
• One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is… — Charles Dickens
• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they… — Al Capone
• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his… — Adolf Hitler
• Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible… — Hugo Chavez
• A benefactor is a representative of God. — Benjamin Whichcote
• It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to… — Thomas Traherne

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