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Benevolence Quotes

1.
The person of benevolence never worries.
Confucius

Authors on Benevolence Quotes: Confucius Samuel Johnson John Calvin Khaled Hosseini Thomas Ken Michael J. Sullivan Walter Bagehot Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sophia Lee Honore de Balzac William Rounseville Alger Joseph Hall Marcus Tullius Cicero Hosea Ballou Joseph Joubert Plutarch Frederick Douglass Thomas B. Macaulay Julius Rosenwald Charles Caleb Colton James Payn Thomas Carlyle
2.
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.
Michael J. Sullivan

3.
Try to be of some use to others.
Joseph Hall

4.
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
James Payn

5.
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
John Calvin

6.
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
Charles Caleb Colton

7.
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
Thomas B. Macaulay

8.
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
Walter Bagehot

9.
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
Khaled Hosseini

10.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Plutarch

11.
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12.
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

13.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson

14.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Joseph Joubert

15.
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
Thomas Carlyle

16.
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Hosea Ballou

17.
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
Confucius

18.
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence;
they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
Honore de Balzac

19.
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass

20.
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
Thomas Ken

21.
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
William Rounseville Alger

22.
Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.
Sophia Lee

23.
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
Samuel Johnson

24.
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
Julius Rosenwald