Mark Twain Quotes About Charity

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

• What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Success

• How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Editors, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7132, Delphi Classics

• Children have but little charity for one another's defects

  Mark Twain

  Children, Charity, Littles

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3587, GENERAL PRESS

• In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

  Mark Twain

  Support, Age, Charity

  Mark Twain (1903). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

• Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Charity, Gentleness

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.232, Courier Corporation

• Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

  Mark Twain

  Charity, Scene, Curtains

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.46, MobileReference

• Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Gone, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

• Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Waiting, Three

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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