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portion of misery to an end.
    â€” A LBERT S CHWEITZER
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    We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
    â€” M OTHER T ERESA OF C ALCUTTA
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    It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
    â€” K AHLIL G IBRAN
    The Prophet
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    He who helps early helps twice.
    â€” T ADEUSZ M AZOWIECKI
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    Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don’t be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.
    â€” M ERRY B ROWNE
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    You may give gifts without caring—but you can’t care without giving.
    â€” F RANK A . C LARK
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    Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
    â€” P OPE J OHN XXIII
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    It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    â€” C HARLES D UDLEY W ARNER
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    We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
    â€” F REYA S TARK
    Perseus in the Wind
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    Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
    â€” H ECTOR B IANCIOTTI
    Sans La Misericorde du Christ
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    Extending your hand is extending yourself.
    â€” R OD M C K UEN
    Book of Days
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    The miracle is this—the more we share, the more we have.
    â€” L EONARD N IMOY
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    To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
    â€” A BRAHAM L INCOLN
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    The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
    â€” M ALCOLM S . F ORBES
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    He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
    â€” Y UGOSLAV PROVERB
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    Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
    â€” G RETEL E HRLICH
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    Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
    â€” J OHANN W OLFGANG VON G OETHE
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    Money-giving is a good criterion of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
    â€” D R. K ARL M ENNINGER
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    The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
    â€” H UBERT H . H UMPHREY
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    You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
    â€” P . J . O’R OURKE
    A Parliament of Whores
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    We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.
    â€” M IGNON M C L AUGHLIN
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    The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
    â€” C HARLES L AMB
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    Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not.
    â€” D AN B ENNETT
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    Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
    â€” F RANK A . C LARK
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    Nobody wants constructive criticism. It’s all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
    â€” M IGNON M C L AUGHLIN
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    The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
    â€” B ENJAMIN D ISRAELI
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    The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless.
    â€” E RIC H OFFER
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    Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods.
    â€” H ENRY S . H ASKINS
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    Life’s unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
    â€” H UBERT H . H UMPHREY
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    We ought to be careful not to do for a fellow what we only intended to help him do.
    â€” F RANK A . C LARK
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    The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
    â€” W ILLIAM H . D AVIS
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    The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
    â€” L AURENCE L EAMER
    King