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Charity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do.— JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — Letter to
A. Bronson. July 30, 1838. Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.— ADDISON — The Guardian. No. 166.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. C.— ADDISON — The Guardian. No. 166.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.— BACON — Essay. On Goodness.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in
France. 1790. True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.— COWPER — Charity. L. 573.
No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.— GRAY — Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
Epitaph. Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun.— HOOD — The Bridge of Sighs.
Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."— CHARLES JEFFERYS — Charity.
In silence, *** Steals on soft-handed Charity, Tempering her gifts, that seem so free, By time and place, Till not a woe the bleak world see, But finds her grace.— KEBLE — The Christian Year. The Sunday After Ascension Day. St. 6.
He is truly great who hath a great charity.— THOMAS A KEMPIS — Imitation of Christ. Bk. I. Ch. III. (Trans. by Dibdin). Act a charity sometimes.
CHARLES LAMB-Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis. Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.— CHARLES LAMB — Complaint of the
Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.— ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Second Inaugural
Address, March 4th, 1865. A beggar through the world am I,- From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.— LOWELL — The Beggar. St. 1.
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!— LOWELL — Godminster Chimes. St. 7.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.— HORACE MANN — Lectures on Education.
Lecture VI. All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand, Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour In silence wrote on in the sand.— JOAQUIN MILLER — Charity.
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 307.
Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives : Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even And opens in each heart a little Heaven.— PRIOR — Charity.
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! и. Henry VIII. Act. IV. Sc. 2. L. 21. A tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act. IV. Sc. 4. L. 31. Charity itself fulfils the law, And who can sever love from charity?— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 364.
Charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. Richard III. Act. I. Sc. 2. L. 68. For this relief, much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 8.
So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 31.
We are born to do benefits: * * * 0, what a precious comfort 'tis to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes! Timon of Athens. Act. I. Sc. 2. L. 105. You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.— SYDNEY SMITH — Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. P. 261.
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.— SWEDENBORG — True Christian Religion.
Par. 422. 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.— THOS. NOON TALFOURD — Ion. Act I. Sc. 2.