Philanthropy

“Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.”

“It is not that there may be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality.”

“For his bountyWere dolphin-like.”

“For this relief, much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,And I am sick at heart.”

“Speak with me, pity me, open the door:A beggar begs that never begg'd before.”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.”

“The best philanthropy is anonymous charity.”

“You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.”

“Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.”

“Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.”

“He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.”

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”

“A kind and gentle heart he had, When he put on his clothes.”

“Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.”

“Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.”

“By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.”

“It never was our guiseTo slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”

“In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”

“Alas! for the rarityHome had she none.”

“He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.”

“I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.”

“In Misery's darkest caverns known, And lonely want retir'd to die.”

“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.”

“Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.”

“Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.”

“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”

“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.”

“When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”

“Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have brought him to your door.”

“The organized charity, scrimped and iced,In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”

“'Tis a little thingRenews the life of joy in happiest hours.”

“The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.”

“O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain To get by giving what you lost by gain.”

“Let your alms sweat in your hands, until you know to whom you should give.”

“His house was known to all the vagrant train,Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.”