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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and

The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. – Mark Hopkins

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. – Mark Hopkins

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