She used to keep the girls sewing charity clothing, and maintained to me that it was not for the good of the recipients, but of the sewers.
Do have the Christian charity to write me a long, long letter; fill it with the minutest details; nothing will be uninteresting.
The warden, for there will still be a warden, will receive an income more in keeping with the extent of the charity than that heretofore paid.
Courtesy should have kept him silent, even if neither charitynor modesty could do so.
It will be remembered that at the time alluded to, now five years past, we had occasion to remark on the state of a charityin Barchester called Hiram's Hospital.
He kissed it again and again, and stretched over her as though desirous of extending the charity of his pardon beyond the hand that was offered to him.
It is a pity that there should be so little charity abroad.
He also declared that the government had no more right to saddle the charity with twelve old women than with twelve hundred; and he was, therefore, very indignant on the matter.
A perfectly pure woman may be unfeeling, perhaps all the more because she needs no charity herself.
But we can hardly hope that much of it is ideal since the true charity is "Not what we give but what we share.
Charity in the country is the natural flower of a loving heart.
When she gives her services for some charity there is an especial fitness in it, since those who go to hear her wish to pay the high prices for the rare treat, and would still wish to do so if she were to keep the money for herself.
It seems to me that the most beautiful charity is always that which is done within one's own circle.
I have often thought this was the only kind of charity which did not injure the giver; for the moment we try to help those perceptibly below us we are apt to be condescending and to feel a secret pride.
Why, he looked more like he ought to be sittin' around the waitin' room of some charity hospital, than tryin' to butt in on the time of one of the busiest men in New York.
She ain't got any use for churches, charity institutions, society, or the suffragettes.
And still for you, O prisoners in cells, I hold the dearest gifts of penitence, Forgiveness andcharity and hope!
And none go blind that another see, Or die that another live; And none insult with a charity That is not theirs to give.
I hear far and near of your charity to others, but I can't say that I ever saw any great symptom of it myself.
He had the charity to give me his guidance from the Sands, and a night's harbourage from the tempest.
Hast thou so much charity under thy simplicity, Quaker, as to do this good turn?
What need you frighten a poor girl that is no schollard, bating what she learned at the Charity School of Saint Bees?
Scots in my debt--it's a great shame and oppression that charity workhouse, taking in bankrupt dyvours that canna, pay their honest creditors.
Now the Sister of Charityis lighting the lamps; Now she is bringing the patients their supper, She has closed the windows upon the canal, And all the doors to the light of the moon!
Or Sisters of Charity on an ocean devoid of patients!
But see, the Sister of Charity is making up the fire!
Why, brother, you converted Abigail; And I am bound in charity to requite it, And so I will.
Something of this large charity I find In all the sects that sever human kind; I would to Allah that their lives agreed More nearly with the lesson of their creed!
She was a nameless waif, dependent on the charity of Farmer Jocelyn.
I never knew such energy as she shows in organising charity bails and bazaars!
Christmas, with all its kindliness andcharity and good-will, is, after all, deuced selfish.
A kind-hearted city missionary, visiting one of the unfortunate families living in the upper rooms of old Ann's house, had learned from them of the noble charity of the humble old washerwoman.
But the curse fastened by the progress of Christian charity and of human rights upon the African slave-trade could not rest there.
This measure, which he maintained was wise and prudent, was regarded, according to the usual charity of party spirit, as designed to gain favor with the Democracy, and was immediately rejected.
John Brown," one of the guests observed; and it seems that, thus early in his career, the doctor had been setting an example of the courage and charity of his profession.
For where was that Charity that buildeth upon the foundation of Humility, which is Christ Jesus?
It became painful for him at home for he felt as though he were eating the bread of charity when Christmas was over, and he could no longer be regarded as a Christmas guest.
Schiller had to creep into a public post for the sake of a living and even eat the bread of charity from a duke's hand.
We heard that a man we were interested in was in the vicinity of a certain city, and in the effort to trace him wrote to the charity organization society in that place, but without success.
Several months later the charity organization society saw an item in a newspaper to the effect that the man had been interned as an enemy alien, and notified us.
A woman with four children applied to a charity organization society, saying her husband had disappeared.
No probation was thought necessary and the case was closed, both the court and the charity organization society crediting themselves with a case successfully handled and terminated.
We left the Hague, and taking the railway, in a little more than two hours were at Amsterdam, a great commercial city in decay, where nearly half of the inhabitants live on the charity of the rest.
Justice was not done away in Christ, who taught it, with emphasis, even while inculcating charity and mercy.
Ham Morris declared that the family he had brought ashore "came just in time to help him out with his fall work, and he didn't see any charity in it.
Now, this is the very want of charity I complain of-the idea of asking me such a question!
If thou act in love and charity with thy neighbors, thou art making sweeter harmony in the ears of our Lord Jesus Christ than psaltery, dulcimer, and all other kinds of music.
This spirit of unselfishness and of a sublime charity runs through all his work.
How much better is ante-mortem charity than post-mortem beneficence.
But let us remember that the greatest philanthropist of the ages was Jesus Christ, and the greatest charity ever known was that which gave not its dollars, but its blood, for the purchase of the world's deliverance.
The piece on the left represents St. Vincent of Gaul engaged in charity on a winter's day, and the picture above is the marriage of the blessed Virgin.
The Sisters of Charity have an asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, in a prosperous condition.
You have no idea how much practical wisdom the maxim contains, nor what a fund of charity it provides.
I cannot say what measure of charity accompanies your zeal for truth in this amiable society, Scaresby, but I can repeat my assertion that this must be a falsehood.
In saying that I ask you to judge me, as we should judge all, with that charity which believeth no evil.
And charity is bitter to many," she added, "and the poorhouse is bitter to all.
At the same time she is penniless and dependent, teaching English in a kind of charity school, cheek by jowl with a princess!
