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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
In silence, . . .
Steals on soft-handed Charity,
Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,
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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.
Charity and treating begin at home.
Charity and treating begin at home.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they read more
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode
(There they alike in trembling hope repose),
The bosom of his Father and his God.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of
Christian charity.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of
Christian charity.
