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A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. ↗

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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ↗

— Horace Mann

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To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. ↗

— Ann Plato

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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. ↗