“The living need charity more than the dead.”
The Jolly Old Pedagogue.
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American author and poet 1834–1865Related quotes
“The dead are way more organized than the living.”
Source: Un Lun Dun
“A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
"Pensées Tirées des Premières Éditions," Réflexions: Ou, Sentences Et Maximes Morales de La Rochefoucauld (1822)
Later Additions to the Maxims
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1 : In Praise of Diversity
Context: There is no easy solution to the conflict between fundamentalist Christian dogma and the facts of biological evolution. I am not saying that the conflict could have been altogether avoided. I am saying only that the conflict was made more bitter and more damaging, both to religion and to science, by the dogmatic and self-righteousness of scientists. What was needed was a little more human charity, a little more willingness to listen rather than to lay down the law, a little more humility. Scientists stand in need of these Christian virtues just as much as preachers do.
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.”
“Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.”
Quoted in Elise Harris, " Priest Swaps Clerical Hats with 'Sharp, Healthy' Benedict XVI http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/priest-swaps-clerical-hats-with-sharp-healthy-benedict-xvi", National Catholic Register (11 February 2013)
2013
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
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