#alms

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#alms #disgusting #earth #even #gives

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. ↗

— St. Jerome

#daughter #first #first of all #godly #heart

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. ↗

— John Ruskin

#also #give #nothing #thought #unless

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#feel #going #hands #i #i feel

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK. ↗

— Koo Stark

#am #america #breast cancer #cancer #cent

Despair has its own calms. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#despair #own

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#babbling #beads #believe #consists #many

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#america #anybody #buy #car #else

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above. ↗

— Fanny Crosby

#angel #child #flown #had #love

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#athlete #being #life #realms #training