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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Charity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O why your good deeds with such pride do you scan,<br>And why that self-satisfied smile<br>At the shilling you gave to the poor working man,<br>That lifted you over the stile?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Tis not much; all the bread that can with it be bought,<br>Will scarce give a morsel to each<br>Of his eight hungry children;-reflection and thought<br>Should you more humility teach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Vainglory's a worm which the very best action<br>Will taint, and its soundness eat through;<br>But to give one's self airs for a small benefaction,<br>Is folly and vanity too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The money perhaps by your father or mother<br>Was furnished you but with that view;<br>If so, you were only the steward of another,<br>And the praise you usurp is their due.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Perhaps every shilling you give in this way<br>Is paid back with two by your friends;<br>Then the bounty you so ostentatious display,<br>Has little and low selfish ends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But if every penny you gave were your own,<br>And giving diminished your purse;<br>By a child's slender means think how little is done,<br>And how little for it you're the worse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You eat, and you drink; when you rise in the morn,<br>You are clothed; you have health and content;<br>And you never have known, from the day you were born,<br>What hunger or nakedness meant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The most which your bounty from you can subtract<br>Is an apple, a sweetmeat, a toy;<br>For so easy a virtue, so trifling an act,<br>You are paid with an innocent joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Give thy bread to the hungry, the thirsty thy cup;<br>Divide with the afflicted thy lot:<br>This can only be practised by persons grown up,<br>Who've possessions which children have not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Having two cloaks, give one (said our Lord) to the poor;<br>In such bounty as that lies the trial:<br>But a child that gives half of its infantile store<br>Has small praise, because small self-denial.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q>
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