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"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."
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"So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give."

"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up."

"Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it."

"Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity."

"Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up."
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"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."

"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."

"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."

"Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"
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