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«Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.»
«True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense»
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
| About:
Charity
| Keywords:
charities, recompense, recompenses, recompensing, useful
«The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Kissing,
Life,
Smile
| Keywords:
charities, compliment, countless, fractions, genial, made-up, pleasurable
«Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.»
«The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Positive thinking,
Respect
| Keywords:
charities, charity, child, conduct, deference, example, Father, fathering, forgiveness, good example, mother, opponent, proud, prouder, proud of, respect, tolerance
«Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
bequeath, bequeathed, charities, posthumous
«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplished, anxious, battle, charities, charity, concerning, confess, confessing, contented, difficulties, Faith in the Future, fears, forsake, forsakes, forsaking, Good Neighbors, grace, health, helpful, Hope and Faith, move, needs, neighbor, neighboring, nines, Nine Lives, overcome, patience, remove, requisites, sins, support, The Good Neighbor, toil, toiled, toiling, useful, wealth
«The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
charities, fractions, heartfelt
«The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;The charities that soothe, and heal, and blessAre scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.»
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