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Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
The living need charity more than the dead.
The living need charity more than the dead.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for
charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for
charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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.
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity and treating begin at home.
Charity and treating begin at home.
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.
