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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun.
Oh! it was pitiful!
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Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun.
Oh! it was pitiful!
Near a whole city full,
Home had she none.
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole
world.
[Lat., Nec sibi sed read more
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole
world.
[Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he read more
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad
When he put on his clothes.
