quotes about Benevolence
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Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.
-- Charles Simmons -
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
-- James PaynSource : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
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We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
-- Joseph Joubert -
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.
-- Michael J. SullivanSource : Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “Nyphron Rising”, p.245, Ridan Publishing
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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
-- Saadi -
Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.
-- Sophia LeeSource : Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.275, University Press of Kentucky
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Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
-- Julius Rosenwald