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Benevolence Quotes
On kindness treated as an obligation, not a mood.
These picks pull benevolence in two directions at once: a classical view that a benevolent man's poverty is really just a temporary lapse in duty, and a far more suspicious modern take on benevolence invoked as political cover. A martial-arts reflection ties it to self-discipline. Compare Admire.
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- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
- Christianity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.
- Expedience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
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