1.
The person of benevolence never worries.
Confucius
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
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
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
John Calvin
7.
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
Charles Caleb Colton
8.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Joseph Joubert
10.
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
Walter Bagehot
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cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
Khaled Hosseini
12.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Plutarch
14.
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
16.
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
Confucius
17.
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Hosea Ballou
18.
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass
19.
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
20.
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
Julius Rosenwald
21.
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
Thomas Ken
23.
Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.
Sophia Lee
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
Samuel Johnson