"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."
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"I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world."
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"Sometimes give your services for nothing."
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"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for"
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"If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex."
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"I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food."
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"To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man."
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"Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice."
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"Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront."
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"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."
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"Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire."
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"Charity is love; not all love is charity."
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"Charity opens the heart."
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"Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto."
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"When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love."
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"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature."
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"When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation."
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"[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity."
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"True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift."
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"My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'"
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