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Quote by Joseph Addison
With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent peopl

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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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. – Walter Benjamin

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. – Ethel Percy Andrus

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Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? – Francis Atterbury

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