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“In charity there is no excess.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
George Sand
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there”
Proverb
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in”
Abraham Lincoln
“May your charity increase as much as your wealth”
“Charity sees the need, not the cause”
German Proverb
“And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (I Corinthians 13:13).”
Bible
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
John D. Rockefeller
“While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all”
Oscar Wilde
“The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving”
Ralph Waldo Emerson