| Author |
Quotes |
| Joseph Addison | Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. |
| Matthew Prior | Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little Heaven. |
| Mohammed | Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. |
| Ogden Nash | They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball. |
| Peter Marshall | The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. |
| Phillips Brooks | Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all. |
| Robert Southey | Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. |
| Samuel Johnson | He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | The voice of the world . |
| Terence Afer | Charity begins at home. |
| The Koran | Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission. |
| Thomas Gray | No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode , The bosom of his Father and his God. |
| Thomas Gray | When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. |
| Victor Hugo | As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. |
| William Cowper | True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. |
| Zoroaster | Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable, love your fellows, console the afflicted, pardon those who have done you wrong. |
| William Shakespeare | It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law And who can never love from charity? |
| William Shakespeare | Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. |
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