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• In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Matter, Poverty, Obstacles

  Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.184, Paulist Press

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• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Character, Native American

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

  Maxim Gorky

  Giving, Earth, Miserable

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• Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Corn, Bread, Week

  Francis Henry Cripps-Day, Walter de Henley, Jacques Bellot, Robert Grosseteste (1931). “The manor farm”

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• If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

  Muhammad

  Evil, Giving, Secret

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• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• The poor should live by alms.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Poor, Should, Live By

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• A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thank You, Generosity, Giving

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• To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
  [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

  George Herbert

  Feet, Giving, Philanthropy

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• There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

  Lord Acton

  Smile, Eye, Soul

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• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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• Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Law, Giving

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• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Animal, Leaves Of Grass

  "Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

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• Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

  Thomas Sprat

  Style, Pity, Poor

  Thomas Sprat (1678). “A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergy-men: In the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Nov. Vii, 1678”, p.11

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• I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Generosity, Giving, Enough

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1911). “Thus spake Zarathustra”, p.3, Рипол Классик

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• The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cowardice, Giver

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin

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• Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Giving, Deeds, Virtuous

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 83, 1909.

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• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hands, Left Hand, Philanthropy

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

  John Vianney

  Giving, Earth, Should

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• The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reflection, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Wish, Vices

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.46, St Athanasius Press

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• The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Saint, Firsts

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.15, St Athanasius Press

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