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The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

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.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all By getting up a costume charity ball.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.