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.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? read more

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

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.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

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.