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“Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.”

Truth School Virtue Mankind Truth Is Charity Ancient Sects

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.”

Form Powerful Moral Mankind Pure Institutions Charity Cruelty Combination Most Powerful Benevolence Superstitious Rite Pernicious

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”

Ifs Men Giving Next Mankind Higher Prejudice Praise Charity Manners Hospitality Harbors Edification

Book:Concord Days

Source: Concord Days

“A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.”

Men Done Wealth Mankind Charity Hereafter Giving To Charity Charity And Giving True Wealth Inspirational Charity Charity And Love

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.”

Today Evil Race Millions Rich Wise Sea Mankind Produce Serious Thousand Hundred Dollars Charity Obstacles Improvement Nine Cures Fifty Thrown Being Wise Unworthy

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.”

Source: The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.”

Men Life Needs Helping Asks Race Power Mankind Fellows Guilt Charity Refuse Aids Cease Mutual Philanthropy Fellow Man Philanthropic Environmental Stewardship Mutual Help

Author:Walter Scott

“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”

Lying Humanity Responsibility Mankind Concern Salvation Charity

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

Men Hands Water Deals Mankind Ocean Mercy Trade Charity Ghost Good Man Cried Comprehensive Benevolence Jacob Drop Of Water Forbearance Scrooge

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books