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    In misery's darkest caverns known,
    His useful care was ever nigh,
    Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,
    And lonely want retir'd to die.

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Pity the sorrow of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.

Pity the sorrow of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.

by Thomas Moss Found in: Philanthropy Quotes,
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

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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.]

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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.

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Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.

Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.

by William Langland Found in: Philanthropy Quotes,
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To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

by Horace Mann Found in: Philanthropy Quotes,
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He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.

by Thomas Campbell Found in: Philanthropy Quotes,
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Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by
interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was read more

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by
interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good
works and almsdeeds which she did.

by Bible Found in: Philanthropy Quotes,
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

by Edward Gibbon Found in: Philanthropy Quotes,
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