"You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence."
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"Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave."
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"Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare."
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"It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them."
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"Let us strive on to finish the work we are in."
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"He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican."
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"It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."
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"The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good."
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"We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism."
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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."
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"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."
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"The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new."
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"He who gives early gives twice."
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"In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity."
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"Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines."
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"In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'."
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"The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing."
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"The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals."
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"Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed"
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"Charity isn't about pity, it is about love."
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