True charity is the
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg
Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things–’tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life. Elizabeth Keckley
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again! Elizabeth Chase Allen
Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women’s graves – a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live. Elizabeth Chase Allen
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. Elizabeth … Read more
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. Francois … Read more
The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness. Francois de la Noue
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they … Read more
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense. Fanny Burney