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The charitable
give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
-- Proverb
Charity sees
the need, not the cause.
-- German Proverb
Sayings of German Origin
Charity is
injurious unless it helps the recipient to become
independent of it.
-- John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American
Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon
The beginning
and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall
work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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The best loved
by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the
poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of
the rich.
-- Saadi
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.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator,
Writer
Nothing is so
hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others
can be in want.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
If you give
money, spend yourself with it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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