How To Use Benevolence In A Sentence
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This orphanage solicits its benevolence of the wealthy people.
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The answer is yes, I do believe in benevolence and malevolence as being a part of mans nature, I think where we differ, is the belief in the architect of nature and whether the formation of the natural world including the physique was a guided or a random process.
Child Abuse Alert
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The concept of durbar reveals the jagadguru's benevolence for the welfare and well being of the devotees who participate to gain the acharya's blessings.
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You possess too much candour and benevolence not to make allowance, and to forgive the various emotions of my mind, which you have witnessed in this, to me, unhappy conferrence.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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In the Confucian Doctrine, propriety a concept of the political theory, and benevolence, the ethical system.
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The quickness of his temper was counteracted by the generosity and benevolence of his heart.
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His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion.
The Tragic Muse
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This eyewash is integral to the whole imperial project of the ‘civilising mission’, a kind of experience that lends support to the benevolence of western powers.
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Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Plato in his Symposium discusses only the kind of love that is found in men, which has its final cause in the lover but not in the beloved (terminato ne l'amante ma non ne l'amato), for this kind mainly is called love, since that which ends in the loved one is called friendship and benevolence (ché quel che si termina ne l'amato si chiama amicizia e benivolenzia).
Judah Abrabanel
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These include the common moral decencies of integrity, trustworthiness, benevolence, and fairness.
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Satan's rebellion arises in no small measure from an over-estimation of the importance of existents and a rejection of those aspects of his relationship with God to be affirmed through belief: the unobservable act of his own creation; and the benevolence of the Son's vicegerent rule, which he takes to be an expression of divine authoritarianism.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief
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Because want to construct more facilities is have to want benevolence index number.
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God knows how many sacrifices, prayers and sufferings have been offered to support me in my service to the church, how much benevolence and solicitude, how many signs of communion have surrounded me every day.
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Charitable payments or gratuities given by employers should not be deducted from awards of damages as it is important not to discourage benevolence.
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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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They preferred an older ethic of philanthropic benevolence, and while some Australians undoubtedly benefited from such charity, it left others unprovided for.
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In its more special meaning it has been supposed [134] to imply not merely the going forth of good towards an object, but the meeting of good in that object, the term benevolence being used to express the love of that which in itself does not contain any love-worthiness.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.
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In such a case, the person has failed to show benevolence for morally discreditable reasons, and so has behaved badly.
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I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness; but there are moments when, if any one performs an act of kindness towards him, or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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There is no possibility of explaining the system of life in this world, on any principle of _conqueringly_ Divine benevolence.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
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After all, how can we expect a person who is cruel to small creatures to show kindness and benevolence to his countrymen?
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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They have repeatedly given up their time to save lives and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their benevolence.
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He had thick reddish-yellow eyebrows at the base of a slightly receding forehead – wanting in benevolence, phrenologists would have said, and with the bump of self-esteem considerably developed.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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A large, yet relatively clean city, it carried a certain benevolence that took it a step above its more unsavory neighbors.
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Violence remains a potential threat beneath the appearance of feminine softness and the protestations of peace and benevolence.
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He seemed to be about forty-six years of age; his countenance was open, and conveyed the idea of mildness and benevolence.
Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
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Whereas, in an ideal of love and benevolence, we have tried to automatize ourselves into little love-engines always stoked with the sorrows or beauties of other people, so that we can get up steam of charity or righteous wrath.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
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Benevolence inflames the anger of the young men of the cités as much as repression, because their rage is inseparable from their being.
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Here, in a regular series of instructive reading, in the cultivation of every elegant talent, and the acquirement of every useful art, and in the interchangement of the good offices and real pleasures which the society of the good and the rational may every where afford, their hours of amusement were past; those of duty, in every exertion of active benevolence and even-handed justice, that their situation as lords paramount of the neighbourhood, or as the richest people in it, could give occasion for.
Things By Their Right Names
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So the Caliph rejoiced in the acquittance of the youth and his truth and good faith; moreover, he magnified the generosity of Abu Zarr, extolling it over all his companions, and approved the resolve of the two young men for its benevolence, giving them praise with thanks and applying to their case the saying of the poet,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He did it out of pure benevolence.
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For her, personal service extended beyond benevolence by requiring socially comfortable Jewish women to study Jewish history and ethics, so they might understand their responsibility for reknitting a fragmented ethnic community.
Club Movement in the United States.
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In a few years after, parliament made what my Lord Bacon calls an underpropping aB of the benevolence, by or - daining that the fums, which any perfon had agreed to pay, might be levied by the ordinary courfe of law.
An historical view of the English government, : from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the accession, of the House of Stewart.
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But both those and his spirit of satire are mere quizziness 3 his mind is all solid benevolence and worth.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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Never does one feel the imposition of a despotic “I” that St Paul identified as the very voice of the devil, but the benevolence of a friend to the truth whose ambition may have been, according to his own terms, to “versify the Sophia Perennis.”
Introducing Jean Biès
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In early December, the administration seized the assets of the nation's three largest Muslim charities and shut them down - the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), Global Relief Foundation (GRF), and Benevolence International Foundation (BIF).
Targeting Muslim Charities in America
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The necessary trust depends on benevolence to others, including strangers, honest dealing and fulfilment of promises entered into voluntarily.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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Phrenologically the Indian allows his alimentiveness to overbalance his group of organs which show veneration, benevolence, fondness for society, fêtes champêtres, etc., hope, love of study, fondness for agriculture, an unbridled passion for toil, etc.
Comic History of the United States
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He is a man of sensibility, and his benevolence pleases others and himself.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Although one would hope that corporate benevolence is at play here it is also quite possible that having the import and export duty categories, and Mexican tax status changed as a result of the sale of an enriched product is a significant motivator here.
A molcajete, a clay comal, and some cal.
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Press_, where the peer and the commoner, the priest and the alderman, the friar and the swaddler, [2] can stretch themselves at full length, provided they be not too churlish, let us laugh at those who breed useless quarrels, and set to the world the bright example of toleration and benevolence.
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
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Where angels are all benevolence and guardianship, the fairy is a good-time girl.
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in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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The inconsistency and disproportionateness which has been occasioned in our sentiments of benevolence, offers a curious moral phenomenon.
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Howsoever it may be with all other aberrations of the human intellect, there is one description of errors from which it would be uncandid to deny that they are wholly free, viz. all those which arise from immoderate benevolence or ill-regulated philanthropy.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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For that principle being wedged into human nature which the Greeks call fc-oXirixoVj the principle of correspondence apd uniting our interests, every sort of virtue, must have a communication with those of agreement, unity and benevolence in societies, as justice reci - procally influences, enforces and seeks to every other virtue.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion
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Nur al-Din rejoiced at the captain’s words with joy exceeding and thanked him for his bounty and benevolence.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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These people stand in these paths of traditionalism and routinism, just where their forefathers left them, occupying all their time in admiring the wisdom and benevolence and devotion of their forefathers, instead of imitating _their aggressive faith_ and MARCHING ON TO THE CONQUEST OF
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881
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The reason is simple: it's unlikely that an animal abuser will show benevolence to his counterpart.
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The word benevolence, when applied to the character of the Quakers, includes also a tender feeling towards the brute creation.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3
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He really believes in nature, and values life for the power of what Johnson calls reciprocation of benevolence.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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Cops in twos and threes huddle[Sentencedict], lightly tap their thighs with night sticks and smile at me with benevolence.
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The assertors of this inverse ratio between piety and amusement must, in short, dispose as best they can, of the fact that along with the growth of Christian intelligence, Christian benevolence, and Christian activity, there has been developed in the church itself a growing sympathy with many of the very forms of amusement most condemned by the religious sentiment of an earlier age.
Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
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The misery of the times had reduced the nobles and matrons of Rome to accept, without a blush, the benevolence of the church: three thousand virgins received their food and raiment from the hand of their benefactor; and many bishops of Italy escaped from the Barbarians to the hospitable threshold of the Vatican.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Just three months after 9/11, in December 2001, the government raided and closed down the country's three largest Islamic charities: the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), the Global Relief Foundation (GRF), and the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), accusing them of supporting terrorism.
Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir at Terre Haute Prison's New Communications Management Unit
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Benevolence will not supplement alimentiveness in the small boy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
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The friends who had developed about his path in such flattering numbers when he came home from India, and retired, with a newly-acquired fortune and a vague halo of military distinction about his person, into the ranks of the half-paid, were beginning to find him rather old and, frankly, a considerable bore; but the timely benevolence which he had extended to his nephew was, it appeared, to have its reward in this world in the shape of a kind of reflected rejuvenescence, a temporary respite from the limbo of (how he hated the word!) fogeydom.
A Comedy of Masks A Novel
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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They were gay and debonnaire, as they were wont to be when she, too, was gay — when St. Aubert used to listen to their merry music, with a countenance beaming pleasure and benevolence.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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He would talk until his head smoked of his list of miraculous cures -- of his balsams, his anodynes, his elixirs; in the benevolence of his soul he would, to accommodate the pockets of the poor, sell a pennyworth of the philosopher's stone; and, as a further illustration of his sympathy for suffering man or woman, give, even for a kreutzer, a mouthful of the Fountain of Youth.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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The recipient then paid a tithe of $20 to the church based on our benevolence payment.
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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Religion is a teacher of love, kindness, sympathy, benevolence and morality, trying to improve human nature. Dr T.P.Chia
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In this argument charity is private benevolence and social welfare is public.
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There is no question that churches may establish benevolence funds.
Christianity Today
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in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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Reason does of course play a role in our moral life, but only as helping to guide us to an end antecedently determined by affection, in particular the affection of universal benevolence.
Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century
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Exactly the same difficulty arises, when we endeavour to account for the development of the moral sense or conscience in savage man; for although the _practice_ of benevolence, honesty, or truth, may have been useful to the tribe possessing these virtues, that does not at all account for the peculiar _sanctity_, attached to actions which each tribe considers right and moral, as contrasted with the very different feelings with which they regard what is merely _useful_.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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However, the colonially appointed Durrani sovereign's apparent benevolence on this point was in fact countervailed because in the same letter he also announced the deputation of a mirza and two subcontracted agents of Nur Muhammad to collect arat or export commission fees from all nomads carrying Afghan fruit to India. 50
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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Similarly, because of the completely natural and empiricism, Benevolence is the universal transcend time and space.
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Its central theme is the struggle between love and power, the overthrow of a world gripped by greed and oppression, and its replacement by one ruled by freedom and benevolence.
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Our ˜natural benevolent affections™ guide us to do good toward some small sector of humankind (a small sector composed of our friends, promisees, colleagues, family, etc.), and stifling such natural tendencies would leave only “a very feeble counterpoise to self-love” and thus little from which to develop a more extended and generalized benevolence (434).
Special Obligations
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Eugene Debs, the principal leader of the Socialist Party at the turn of the century, declared it his mission to “plant benevolence in the heart of stone, instill the love of sobriety into the putrid mind of debauchery, and create industry out of idleness.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Oedipus -- his essential innocence, his affectionateness, his uncalculating benevolence and public spirit; -- while his impetuosity and passionateness make the sequel less incredible.
The Seven Plays in English Verse
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It's totally shaken my belief in the benevolence of faceless multinational corporations.
The Sun
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Of course, generosity, pity, charity, benevolence, or compassion may lead them to do more.
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Now doth it provoke the lower classes, all benevolence and petty giving; and the overrich may be on their guard!
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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New Lanark, the most famous early mill village, was created and run by its begetter, Robert Owen, with a blend of benevolence and authoritarianism.
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Now this quality, which we call benevolence, has been the subject of commentaries by many teachers; but as these commentaries have been difficult of comprehension, they are too hard to enter the ears of women and children.
Tales of Old Japan
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George III's rhetorical transformation from symbol of monarchical benevolence to tyrant provided the ultimate justification for revolution.
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Never let it be said that the US judicial system is devoid of any benevolence, particularly when guilty parties hold up their hand and confess to their crime.
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The necessary trust depends on benevolence to others, including strangers, honest dealing and fulfilment of promises entered into voluntarily.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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The word benevolence, when mentioned as a trait in the character of the
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3
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in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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This he followed with patient assiduity, and a mind ever open to the lessons of piety and benevolence which such a study is so well calculated to afford.
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Violence remains a potential threat beneath the appearance of feminine softness and the protestations of peace and benevolence.
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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He sat smiling in creeshy benevolence, beaming on Gourlay but saying nothing.
The House with the Green Shutters
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As Confucius saw long ago, benevolence or concern for humanity is the indispensable root of it all.
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England what pleasure was derived from the exercise of that faculty he understood to be called "quizzing"; that he could by no means reconcile it to himself according to any rule either of good breeding or benevolence.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
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It is necessary here to point out that whereas he has just placed the names complacency and desire under the generic head, benevolence, he afterwards uses the word benevolence, specifically, instead of desire, as if dividing benevolence into complacency, and benevolence proper.
Treatise on the Love of God
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
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Before this I always canonized benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and credit as the highest moral criteria.
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He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral.
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Benevolence inflames the anger of the young men of the cités as much as repression, because their rage is inseparable from their being.
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But riches indeed bless that heart whose almoner is benevolence.
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Benevolence would have to give way to the exacting standards of science.
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I think trusting one of the most important institutions in a free society - the media - to the benevolence of billionaires is pretty dodgy.
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Religion is a teacher of love, kindness, sympathy, benevolence and morality, trying to improve human nature. Dr T.P.Chia
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In that cultural desert, the President on screen appears a dignified and generous oasis of calm and benevolence.
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These small, daily acts of sympathy teach young children as much, if not more, about loving kindness than all the lectures on benevolence and goodness they may hear later in life.
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Well, then, the quality which we call benevolence is, in fact, a perfection; and it is this perfection which Môshi spoke of as the heart of man.
Tales of Old Japan
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Any positive act of benevolence or good will is one that could be considered sacred.
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The commander stands for the general's qualities of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness.
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His good nature, his benevolence, and the pliableness of his disposition may surely be allowed to compensate for many defects.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian
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The disaster left the world in great grief, but it has responded with unprecedented benevolence.
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August was reserved for Henderson House, where Grandmother Robinson presided with austere benevolence.
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If the people about you are carrying on their business or their benevolence at a pace which drains the life out of you, resolutely take a slower pace; be called a laggard, make less money, accomplish less work than they, but be what you were meant to be and can be.
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
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It was all vagueness, in a hazy holiday benevolence.
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Beside the benevolence is a redness in tooth and claw that is sickening and alienating and it is somehow part of a horrible left-hand/right-hand situation.
Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Anil Dash
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One interesting thing: they were taken with the quotation of Keith Johnstone in the Guardian yesterday by Chris Goode, to the effect that our present taboos are benevolence and tenderness.
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his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds
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The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
