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In charity there is no excess.
- Sir Francis Bacon, English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

CP Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
- Albert Camus, French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)

Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German Proverb

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- Sir Thomas Browne, (1605 - 1682)

CP A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
- Jack London, US adventurer, author, & sailor (1876 - 1916)

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
- William Hutton

Charity begins at home.
- Terence, Roman comic dramatist (185 BC - 159 BC)

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Francis Maitland Balfour

The living need charity more than the dead.
- George Arnold