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The living need charity more than the dead.
The living need charity more than the dead.
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent read more
All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour,
She stood as a marble would stand,
Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour
In silence wrote on in the sand.
And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be read more
And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me
nothing.
He is truly great who hath a great charity.
He is truly great who hath a great charity.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
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.
