Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Philanthropy
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The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
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Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
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