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| A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature | | George Orwell | |
| And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness | | Bible | |
| And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (I Corinthians 13:13). | | Bible | |
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| Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. | | Henry Ford | |
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| Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. | | George Sand | |
| Charity is a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. | | John D. Rockefeller | |
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| Charity shall cover the multitude of sins | | Bible | |
| Children have but little charity for one another's defects | | Mark Twain | |
| Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject. | | Blaise Pascal | |
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| Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. | | Moliere | |
| Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. | | Confucius | |
| I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there | | Jonathan Swift | |
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