BENEVOLENCE QUOTES III

quotations about benevolence

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Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

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It is the business of the benevolent man to seek to promote what is beneficial to the world and to eliminate what is harmful, and to provide a model for the world. What benefits he will carry out; what does not benefit men he will leave alone.

MAZI

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Benevolence is often very peremptory.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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The propriety of cultivating feelings of benevolence toward our fellow-creatures is seldom denied in theory, however frequently the duty may be omitted in practice.

ELIZABETH HAMILTON

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor,
Shall have as much again, and ten times more.

JOHN BUNYAN

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Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence.

RUFFINI

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Benevolence is the most commendable when it is bestowed upon those in distress; it is a token of righteousness, whereby we acknowledge the gifts which God hath put into our hands.

RICHARD JOHNSON

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Benign or harmless benevolence is typically local in its objects, or confined to a special class of people (the sick, for example); whereas dangerous benevolence typically has for its object all present and future human beings ... it is proposed to bring about the happiness of others, not by changing them, but by changing their circumstances: by giving them money, for example, or better surroundings, or legal rights which they did not have before.

DAVID CHARLES STOVE

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Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none so distinguished and pre-eminent in degree as benevolence.

ROBERT PEDDER BUDDICOM

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By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.

ILCHI LEE

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Benevolence is the heroin of the Enlightened.

DAVID CHARLES STOVE

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When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble? When we are always so much more deeply affected by whatever concerns ourselves, than by whatever concerns other men; what is it which prompts the generous, upon all occasions, and the mean upon many, to sacrifice their own interests to the greater interests of others? It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impulses of self-love. It is a stronger power, a more forcible motive, which exerts itself upon such occasions. It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.

ADAM SMITH

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We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality.

OSHO

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His love was like the liberal air--
Embracing all, to cheer and bless;
And every grief that mortals share
Found pity in his tenderness.

WILLIAM WINTER

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He saw the goodness, not the taint,
In many a poor do-nothing creature,
And gave to sinner and to saint,
But kept his faith in human nature.

E.C. STEDMAN

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Benevolence always flows from a pure fountain.

ELIZA SUSAN QUINCY

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I had such great expectations
Of the world's benevolence
Of benevolence
But I prefer hallucinations
'cause they tend to make more sense

TODD RUNDGREN

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We praise those who love their fellow-men.

ARISTOTLE

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To feel much for others, and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

ADAM SMITH

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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

RICHARD ALDINGTON

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