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"A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth."
"All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity."
"All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate."
"The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress."
"Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind."
"Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs."
"What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue."
"Gently to hear, kindly to judge."
"Fortune reigns in gifts of the world."
"My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!"
"All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift."
"Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave."
"Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts."
"I am not in the giving vein today."
"She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies."
"The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty."
"For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true."
"Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship."
"Reform, like charity, must begin at home."
"I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford."
