Charity Quotes (2886 Quotes)
- I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
(Willa Cather, "My Ántonia")
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- To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
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- How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature.
(Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning")
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- Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.
(Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway")
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- With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.
(Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse")
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- Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.
(Suzanne Collins, "Catching Fire")
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- The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
(Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow")
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- It's strange the times people choose to be generous.
(Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower")
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- His gift is slower than Jane's. It creeps. It will touch us in a few seconds.
(Stephenie Meyer, "Breaking Dawn")
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- If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.
(Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values")
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- Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?
(Ray Bradbury, "Something Wicked This Way Comes")
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- You seek problems because you need their gifts.
(Richard Bach, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah")
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