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George Sand

"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."

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"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it."

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Amber Hurdle

"So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give."

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"The giving hand is considered powerful, the receiving hand is considered weak. It's better to give than to receive."

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

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity."

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"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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