Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Quote by George Sand

Topics: Charity Quotes

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you...

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you...

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to...

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I...

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I...

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes...

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes...

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.