"That comes too late that comes for the asking."
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"Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it."
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"One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true."
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"Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes."
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"What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart."
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"The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free."
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"Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought."
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"Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness."
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"Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others."
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"I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience."
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"Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares."
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"Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth."
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"I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing»."
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"I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to."
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"I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need."
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"Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own."
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"I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society."
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"Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing."
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"I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know."
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"I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full."
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