All 12 Uses of
philanthropy
in
Walden
- I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.†
Chpt 1
- Philanthropy is not love for one's fellow-man in the broadest sense.†
Chpt 1
- Howard was no doubt an exceedingly kind and worthy man in his way, and has his reward; but, comparatively speaking, what are a hundred Howards to us, if their philanthropy do not help us in our best estate, when we are most worthy to be helped?†
Chpt 1
- I never heard of a philanthropic meeting in which it was sincerely proposed to do any good to me, or the like of me.†
Chpt 1
- Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
Chpt 1 *philanthropy = Helping others
- The last were not England's best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists.†
Chpt 1
- I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy, but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.†
Chpt 1
- The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own castoff griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy.†
Chpt 1
- …to make it—that the world has been eating green apples; to his eyes, in fact, the globe itself is a great green apple, which there is danger awful to think of that the children of men will nibble before it is ripe; and straightway his drastic philanthropy seeks out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philanthropic activity, the powers in the meanwhile using him for their own ends, no doubt, he cures himself…†
Chpt 1
- …awful to think of that the children of men will nibble before it is ripe; and straightway his drastic philanthropy seeks out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philanthropic activity, the powers in the meanwhile using him for their own ends, no doubt, he cures himself of his dyspepsia, the globe acquires a faint blush on one or both of its cheeks, as if it were beginning to be ripe, and life loses its…†
Chpt 1
- If you should ever be betrayed into any of these philanthropies, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.†
Chpt 1
- I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(philanthropy) helping others -- especially donating money to worthy causes; or an organization that does so