Great Throughts Treasury

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Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

Business | Charity | Man | Money | Poverty | Business |

Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Charity | Poverty |

Ogden Nash

I prefer charity to hospitality because charity begins at home and hospitality ends there.

Charity | Ends | Hospitality |

Saint Francis de Sales NULL

The sincerity which is not charitable proceeds from a charity which is not sincere.

Charity | Sincerity |

Saint Francis de Sales NULL

To love our neighbor with a love of charity is to love God in man or man in God and consequently, to love God alone for His own sake and creatures for the love of God.

Charity | God | Love | Man | God |

Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron

Who does not patiently subdue his mourning prolongs his grief.

Grief | Mourning |

William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

Ecstatic worship which is devoid of charity is for all practical purposes heathen.

Charity | Worship |

Midrash or The Midrash NULL

What is an offering to God? Charity to His children.

Charity | Children | God |

Talmud or The Talmud NULL

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

Charity |

Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant

What better way is there to make men love one another than to make men understand one another. True charity comes only with clarity - just as "mercy" is but justice that understands. Surely the root of all evil is the inability to see clearly that which is.

Better | Charity | Evil | Justice | Love | Men | Mercy | Understand |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Charity | Desire | Thought | Thought |

Francis Bacon

In charity there is no excess.

Charity |

Francis Atterbury

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

Charity |

François Rabelais

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Cause | Charity | Harm | Men | Receive | Unhappiness |

Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. It is true that there is a state of hope which belongs to bright prospects and the morning; but that is not the virtue of hope. The virtue of hope exists only in earthquake and, eclipse. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them. For practical purposes it is at the hopeless moment that we require the hopeful man, and the virtue either does not exist at all, or begins to exist at that moment. Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Charity | Circumstances | Hope | Means | Power | Virtue | Virtue |

Horace Smith

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

Charity | Ends |