Charity begins at home. [ Proverb ]
Charity excuses not cheating. [ Proverb ]
Learn the luxury of doing good. [ Goldsmith ]
Gently to hear, kindly to judge. [ William Shakespeare ]
Women have the genius of charity. [ E. W. Legouve ]
The river knows the way to the sea:
Without a pilot it runs and falls.
Blessing all lands with its charity. [ Emerson ]
True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. [ Cowper ]
He that has no charity merits no mercy. [ Proverb ]
Here quench your thirst, and mark in me
An emblem of true charity;
Who, while my bounty I bestow.
Am neither seen, nor heard to flow. [ Hone ]
What we frankly give, forever is our own. [ Granville ]
Reform, like charity, must begin at home. [ Carlyle ]
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. [ St. Peter ]
Love, friendship, charity are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
He is truly great who is great in charity. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. [ Cowper ]
Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide. [ Pope ]
The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. [ Byron ]
He is truly great who hath a great charity. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Charity is the scope of all God's commands. [ St. Chrysostom ]
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. [ Victor Hugo ]
They serve God well who serve His creatures. [ Mrs. Norton ]
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity! [ William Shakespeare ]
Christian life consists in faith and charity. [ Luther ]
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]
That comes too late that comes for the asking. [ Seneca ]
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home. [ Lamb ]
Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end there. [ Scotch Proverb ]
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]
Charity draws down a blessing on the charitable. [ Le Sage ]
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. [ Proverb ]
Intellect is aristocratic; charity is democratic. [ Amiel ]
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree.
But all mankind's concerned in Charity;
All must be false that thwart this one great end.
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. [ Alexander Pope ]
True charity is liable to excesses and transports. [ Massillon ]
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. [ Calderon ]
The heart ought to give charity when the hand cannot. [ P. Quesnel ]
Charity may be mistaken, but shall never be rewarded. [ Proverb ]
Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hands. [ Addison ]
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself. [ Joubert ]
The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere. [ Professor Vinet ]
There can be no Christianity where there is no charity. [ Colton ]
To pity distress is but humnn; to relieve it is Godlike. [ Horace Mann ]
Catholic charity makes us members of the Catholic church. [ Proverb ]
Charity, which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. [ William Shakespeare ]
The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead. [ Atterbury ]
Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor. [ German Proverb ]
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper. [ Proverb ]
Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. [ Proverb ]
That charity which is the perfection and ornament of religion. [ Addison ]
Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all things it toucheth. [ Erasmus ]
You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. [ Thoreau ]
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. [ Lowell ]
That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity. [ Hutton ]
The moss-clad violet, fragrant and concealed like hidden charity. [ J. F. Hollings ]
The church is out of temper when charity waxes cold, and zeal hot. [ Proverb ]
Charity will rather wipe out the score than inflame the reckoning. [ Proverb ]
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity. [ Lavater ]
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. [ Horace Mann ]
In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. [ Melanthon ]
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. [ Addison ]
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity! [ William Shakespeare ]
It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not against truth. [ Proverb ]
Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity remains. [ Prior ]
The secret pleasure of a generous act is the great mind's great bribe. [ Dryden ]
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. [ De Sales ]
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven and hell a fable. [ Colton ]
Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. [ Madame Swetchine ]
You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. [ Sydney Smith ]
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human; the latter is divine. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. [ Mason ]
Charity is the temple of which justice is the foundation, but you can't have the top without the bottom. [ John Ruskin ]
'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. [ W. Irving ]
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. [ Victor Hugo ]
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. [ Fielding ]
As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself, so the first order of charity is to be sufficient for thyself. [ John Ruskin ]
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. [ Quarles ]
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them, - by laying them out in charity. [ Tillotson ]
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. [ Bacon ]
Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues - righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other. [ Sydney Smith ]
Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare ]
Charity balls are a curse. The name is a subtle argument in favor of their existence, but if ever anything belied its name, it is a charity ball. [ Geo. F. Hall ]
Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. [ Chapin ]
Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]
The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. [ Barrow ]
There are treasures laid up in the heart - treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world. [ Buddhist Scriptures ]
Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]
O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, and philanthropy toward the misanthropic. [ Jean Paul ]
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]