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The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that
charity begins at home"
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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.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they read more
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just read more
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.
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.