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Bible
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
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Bible
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
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But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
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Bible
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
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Douglas Jerrold
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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James Russell Lowell
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
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Joseph Addison
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
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Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]
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Oliver Goldsmith
His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
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Oliver Goldsmith
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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Samuel Johnson
In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
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Thomas Gray
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
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Thomas Hood
Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home had she none.
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