| Author |
Quotes |
| Francis Atterbury | Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?. |
| Francis Bacon | The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it. |
| George Arnold | The living need charity more than the dead. |
| George Eliot | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
| George Granville | What we frankly give, forever is our own. |
| German Proverb | Charity sees the need, not the cause. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. |
| Henry David Thoreau | If you give money, spend yourself with it. |
| Henry Home | The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. |
| Horace Smith | Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. |
| Hosea Ballou | Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. |
| J S Buckminster | The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. |
| J S Buckminster | The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. |
| Jack London | A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. |
| Jack London | A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. |
| John Keble | In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity, Tempering her gifts, that seem so free, By time and place, Till not a woe the bleak world see, But finds her grace. |
| John Quincy Adams | In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do. |
| Jonathan Swift | Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. |
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