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When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
Charity well directed should begin at home.
[Fr., Charite bien ordonne commence pay soy mem.]
Charity well directed should begin at home.
[Fr., Charite bien ordonne commence pay soy mem.]
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
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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.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.
I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that
charity begins at home"
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I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that
charity begins at home"
And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs
abroad at all.
