You May Also Like / View all maxioms
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was read more
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Charity begins at home.
[Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lays read more
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.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
In silence, . . .
Steals on soft-handed Charity,
Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,
read more
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.
