Never let yourself be diverted either by what you would wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. From LearnThat.org. [Bertrand Russell]
The most beneficent regime in history. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Ancient Mariner assured him in beneficent cackles. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
On the other hand, maybe we think that governments do behave, at least some of the time, in beneficent fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching Un-Normal Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Cholera has been rightly called the beneficent sanitary inspector of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
The CEO of a company is a kind of beneficent dictator. From Wordnik.com. [Fernando Espuelas: Meg Whitman's Achilles' Heel?] Reference
'beneficent' leadership of FDR and his allies in politics, academia and media. From Wordnik.com. [MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory] Reference
9. a bountiful eye -- that is, a beneficent disposition. for he giveth ... poor -- His acts prove it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
"beneficent" one, since it eliminates the poorer specimens and leaves the better ones to perpetuate the species. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
"to be beneficent" is a distinct word, agathopoiein. rich in good works -- so "rich in faith," which produces good works (Jas. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Few creatures would seem as beneficent as the cow. From Wordnik.com. [The Cow Turns Green] Reference
A beneficent Providence has outstripped our laggard hopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Even on a human plane we would expect a more beneficent result. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
But we have no fears of the failure of that glorious and beneficent. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Always beneficent, she offered herself as the Goddess of religious nationalism. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: Mother Goddess, Ascending] Reference
It is a personal right and a personal virtue to be charitable, even beneficent. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Such an idea seems to be highly compatible with a beneficent, divine government. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
He was hospitable and beneficent to the poor, and every one that applied to him. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Possessed of so much riches, the beneficent slave shared them with the indigent. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
He is beautiful in their light, his edges smoothed; he is beneficent, forgiving. From Wordnik.com. [Whatever Happens] Reference
It may be pleasant or unpleasant in the discovery, but is beneficent in the long run. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The following Sunday afternoon seemed propitious for the beneficent work of the soul-doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Almost immediately, the charm of the villa begins to exert a beneficent effect on its guests. From Wordnik.com. [Old Formulas, New Variations] Reference
Donald will see you as soon as he returns to New York -- be honest with him and yet beneficent. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
NO thoughtful man can fail to appreciate its beneficent effect upon our institutions and people. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
"We wish that the visit shall exert a beneficent influence upon the mutual relations of both empires.". From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
The energy with which that great conflict was opened and, under the guidance of a manifest and beneficent. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
It represents hundreds of cases equally gratifying of those who, through the beneficent work of the American. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 1, January, 1896] Reference
These were the caliphates; some beneficent, some warmongering, in concept not unlike any other empire or dynasty. From Wordnik.com. [Cali who?] Reference
No such opportunity for a beneficent expression of the high privilege of motherhood had ever been entrusted to her. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
There are flowers that are beneficent, and flowers that are poisonous, and the last are sometimes the most beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I begin to feel quite beneficent; Lord Bountiful of the Warblers, unpacking jewels from my own personal treasure trove. From Wordnik.com. [Birding In Central Park] Reference
Government has grown incrementally partly because voters are confronted with a menu of beneficent choices, absent costs. From Wordnik.com. [The Size of Government Limits Our Other Choices] Reference
And he said to them: The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that have power over them are called beneficent. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
Again this author says: "Men want to know that all the lines of diverse human life converge into one infinite, beneficent hand.". From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
As the limbs grow sinewy and powerful by muscular action, so the soul becomes stronger with each beneficent act that it performs. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
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