BENEVOLENCE QUOTES II

quotations about benevolence

Benevolent people are very apt to be one-sided and fussy, and not of the sweetest temper if others will not be good and happy in their way.

ARTHUR HELPS

Friends in Council


The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

CONFUCIUS

The Doctrine of the Mean


Vengeful benevolence is what I promised you
A dark and everlasting love

THE METEORS

"When Darkness Falls"


You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

SYDNEY SMITH

Memoir of Smith


At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. In each of these stages a standard is formed, different from that of the preceding stage, but in each case the same tendency is recognised as virtue.

W.E.H. LECKY

History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne


Benevolence is love to all men. It is to know all men.

CONFUCIUS

The Sayings of Confucius


How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

WASHINGTON IRVING

"The Christmas Dinner", The Sketch Book


Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

THOMAS GRAY

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"


Often have I heard it said, what good thing you do, do not defer it.

ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA

Liber Consolationis et Consilii


No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the dispenser of all the riches in the universe.

ORVILLE DEWEY

Moral Views of Commerce, Society, and Politics


Feel for others--in your pocket.

C.H. SPURGEON

Salt-Cellars


We have every reason to conclude that moral action extends over the whole empire of God, that Benevolence exerts its noblest energies among the inhabitants of distant worlds, and that it is chiefly through the medium of reciprocal kindness and affection that ecstatic joy pervades the hearts of celestial intelligences, for we cannot conceive happiness to exist in any region of space, or among any class of intellectual beings, where love to the Creator and to one another is not a prominent and permanent affection.

THOMAS DICK

The Complete Works of Thomas Dick


'Tis a kindly action, believe me, to assist the fallen.

OVID

Epistulae ex Ponto


It is the business of the benevolent man to seek to promote what is beneficial to the world and to eliminate what is harmful, and to provide a model for the world. What benefits he will carry out; what does not benefit men he will leave alone.

MAZI

Mazi


By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.

ILCHI LEE

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential


When it comes to giving some people stop at nothing.

DANISH PROVERB


Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none so distinguished and pre-eminent in degree as benevolence.

ROBERT PEDDER BUDDICOM

attributed, Day's Collacon


Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain


While I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellow-creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do.

LORD CHESTERFIELD

letter to the Bishop of Waterford, January 22, 1780


Nine parts of self-interest gilt over with one part of philanthropy.

HERBERT SPENCER

Social Statics