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If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
-Arabic Proverb
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Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.
-Chinese Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause.
-Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
-Proverb
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The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
-Proverb
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
-Joseph Addison
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
-Joseph Addison
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.
-Sparky Anderson
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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
-Ethel Percy Andrus
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The living need charity more than the dead.
-George Arnold
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe
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Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
-Francis Atterbury
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In charity there is no excess.
-Francis Bacon
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
-James Baldwin
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
-Mary Catherine Bateson
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Nature does not give to those who will not spend...
-R.J. Baughan
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There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Getters don't get -- givers get.
-Eugene Benge
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
-Walter Benjamin
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
-Walter Benjamin
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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
-Georges Bernanos
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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
-Bible
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The Liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11.25
-Bible
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It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35
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Books about Charity
