I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. From LearnThat.org. [Dean Alfrange]
Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And may'st thou, stranger to ostentation, and superior to insolence, with true greatness of soul shine forth conspicuous only in beneficence!. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World] Reference
"I am afraid," said the lady, "that this Madame Milin's beneficence is a good deal exaggerated; but come with me, and I will take care of you.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Golden Deeds] Reference
ONE of the first lessons we learned at Hull-House was that private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes] Reference
Unless the real recipient of the foundation's beneficence is capitalism itself, which will now teach even poets a good lesson in the imperatives of market discipline?. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry] Reference
How often I had heard poor Mr. Strange say things like this, and heard of other rich men saying them, after lives of what is called beneficence!. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance] Reference
Not from Miss Ainley's own lips did Caroline hear of her good works; but she knew much of them nevertheless; her beneficence was the familiar topic of the poor in Briarfield. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
It wasn't from "beneficence" or a matter of principle. From Wordnik.com. [F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part I] Reference
We do rely on our perception of judges' "beneficence," whatever that mean according to our particular political bent. From Wordnik.com. [Barney Frank called Justice Scalia a "homophobe." If that "inflamed you, think hard about why Frank chose to portray Scalia the way he did."] Reference
Those traits of which we approve naturally (without any social contrivance), such as beneficence, clemency, and moderation, also tend to the good of society. From Wordnik.com. [Hume's Moral Philosophy] Reference
Because he understood that human sentiments like "beneficence" were only possible in a free society. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Thomas Galphin, under whose beneficence the work at. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
She looked down at him, a caricature of beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
Nor did her beneficence end here; for she did ask Alice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
What paved the road to riches and beneficence for Wilkes?. From Wordnik.com. [Man in the Middle] Reference
But Wilson and others say the beneficence is not welcome. From Wordnik.com. [An Island's Vanishing Culture] Reference
Frugality is not only the basis of quiet, but of beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
But this is not the only avenue to beneficence which the war opens. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
I endeavour actually to deliver myself from this last mark of her beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
On their beneficence or villainy could depend the fate of the world as we know it. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Jacobson: Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report-Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place] Reference
Mr. Hendricks's persuasive eloquence was powerless to convince me of its beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Here we saw God's hand none the less, although exhibited in gentleness and beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
The unfortunate Prince, availing himself of their beneficence and counsel, took his leave. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And his rational sympathies penetrated with the deftness and beneficence of the surgeon's scalpel. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
They give richer options to the boss, in hopes he or she will pass the beneficence down the ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Savings: It's Panic Time] Reference
The unfortunate of all modes of faith met, indeed, with protection and beneficence from that excellent. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
His sympathy was tender as a child's, and his beneficence as liberal as the best of Christian's can be. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
And the Principle of Evil descended again upon the intellect, from which the guide of beneficence was gone. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Nothing could sour our Lord, and convert His goodwill into malice, His serene beneficence into wild revenge. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
What simplicity in their discourses; candor in their discussions; beneficence and energy in their decisions!. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference
She will win a willing way to the heart and home of woman, and her mission will be found to be one of beneficence and love. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
We often think we have given when we have only listened to appeals; the mere audience has been mistaken for active beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind, but kindness and beneficence should be extended to creatures of every species. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
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