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Quotes About Benevolence

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good.
~ Julian May
There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.
~ Julian May
From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.
~ Julie Burchill
I wish I had an ex-wife like you in every department; over in the Fellowship Office, the formerly benevolent Carole continues to maintain an icy distance. I should think her decision to quit our relationship would have filled her with a cheerful burst of self-esteem, but she apparently views the end of our three years together in a different light.)
~ Julie Schumacher
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
~ Junius
Chinese dragons are considered benevolent, much like ruler to subject, as long as the people were loyal to them. This is a Confucius principle. Japanese dragons, however, were believed to kill innocent people to force villages to give their maidens to them as food. - Kailin Gow On the Dragon King in Amazon Lee Adventures in China (Discussion Question)
~ Kailin Gow
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
~ John D. Rockefeller
In charity there is no excess.
~ Francis Bacon
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
~ Francis Bacon
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
~ Frank A. Clark
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
~ Frank A. Clark
I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.
~ Frank Beddor
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The way is to be kind.
~ Fred Rogers
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
~ Fred Rogers
All His life long He had yearned to be giving. Now, under any circumstances, He always had something to give, ten words and a gesture; and people seemed so thankful for it. He was glad.
~ Frederick Rolfe
G)aiety and kindness and tolerance and understanding were the gifts he bestowed upon the world. Wherever he went, he squandered these rare possessions in a most magnificent and bountiful manner, for he knew (what all wise people have realized since the beginning of time) that the only treasures which are truly ours are those we lay up in the hearts of our friends.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon
Faith is precisely trusting that you who give gratuitously will receive gratuitously, but not necessarily from the person to whom you gave.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Gratitude springs from an insight, a recognition that something good has come from another person, that it is freely given to me, and meant as a favor.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
but he conceived that the perfection of human society required that a man should enter a drawing-room where he was a total stranger, and place himself on the hearth-rug, his back to the fire, with an air of expectant benevolence, without curiosity, much as though he had dropped in at a charity concert, kindly disposed to applaud the performers and to overlook mistakes
~ Henry Adams
I hope you will go out today looking for opportunities to do as He did and to love as He loves. I can promise you the peace that you felt as a child will come to you often and it will linger with you. The promise is true that He made to His disciples: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:... not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
~ Henry B. Eyring
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Ada tiga hal penting dalam hidup ini. Pertama adalah kebaikan hati. Kedua, kebaikan hati. Ketiga, kebaikan hati juga.
~ Henry James
Jesus made a number of explicit statements, injunctions really. All to the effect that one was to take no thought but to respond immediately to any appeal for aid. And to respond in large measure. To give your cloak as well as your coat, to walk two miles and not one. And as we know well, with these injunctions went another, more important one—to return good for evil. "Resist not evil!
~ Henry Miller
Had I my choice of all things that might tend to my present felicity, I would pitch upon this, to have my heart possessed with the greatest kindness and affection towards all men in the world. I
~ Henry Scougal