Quotations on Benevolence 12 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 12
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. - Jane Austen (Keywords: Friendship, Benevolence, Man) Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - John Jay Chapman (Keywords: Talent, Benevolence, Learning, Teaching, Will) Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. - Richard Mentor Johnson (Keywords: Religion, Christian, Christianity, Benevolence, Deeds, Holiness, Temperance) Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. - Horace Mann (Keywords: Life, Death, Fear, Benevolence, Generosity, Liberality, Pride) Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. - John McCarthy (Keywords: Money, Work, Benevolence, Occupations, Self) There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. - Francois Rabelais (Keywords: Men, Benevolence, Cause, Charity, Harm, Unhappiness) Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza (Keywords: Peace, War, Virtue, Absence, Benevolence, Confidence, Justice, Mind, State) For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza (Keywords: Peace, War, Virtue, Absence, Benevolence, Confidence, Justice, Mind, State) A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. - Ezra Stiles (Keywords: Wisdom, Benevolence, Infinite) Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. - Joanna Trollope (Keywords: Perception, Benevolence, Difference, Help, Name) When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. - Lao Tzu (Keywords: Truth, Virtue, Beginning, Benevolence, Disorder, Expediency, Right, Shadow) Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. - John Updike (Keywords: Government, Benevolence, Madness)
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