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Try to be of some use to others.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
The person of benevolence never worries.
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
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.
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
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.
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.
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.
The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.
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.
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.