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Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.
Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine,
would vote for nothing but a read more
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine,
would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
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.
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.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
