Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Philanthropy
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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
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Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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