Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the street...s, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative... as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I... tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;Mthough I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be the subject of alms-giving is trying, and to feel in duty bound to appear cheerfully grateful under the trial, must be still... more so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,... A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before it...s door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who has been impoverished for a long time ... who has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,... has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »