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Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no read more
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of
them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this
virtue.
His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;
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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.
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
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To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
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.
