Philanthropy - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46474<![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468<![CDATA[Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46469<![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46470<![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46471<![CDATA[He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46472<![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46473<![CDATA[Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46456<![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457<![CDATA[Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46458<![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46459<![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46460<![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to misery ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461<![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462<![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463<![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464<![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46465<![CDATA[Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46466<![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46467<![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450<![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451<![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46452<![CDATA[But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46453<![CDATA[Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46454<![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46455<![CDATA[Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16312