Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

  • -- Isaac Barrow 艾萨克·巴罗

因为人们不相信天意,所以他们贪婪地搜刮和囤积。他们不相信任何对慈善的回报,因此他们将一无所有。

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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

爱既不羞辱从爱中得益的人,也不用感谢的锁链把他捆绑,因为这恩赐不是给他的,乃是给神的。

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

我像一个垂死的人对垂死的人一样,永远不可能再布道了。

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

思想的启示使人从奴役中获得自由。

Charity is a virtue of the heart and not of the hand.

慈善是心灵的美德,而不是手的美德。