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Philanthropy Quotes
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Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms. (Quote by - George Edward Herbert)
Pity the sorrow of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door. (Quote by - Thomas Moss)
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. (Quote by - David Rockefeller)
Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. (Quote by - William Langland)
It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. (Quote by - Homer)
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth. (Quote by - Matthew)
His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. (Quote by - Homer)