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Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. — Jesus · 60For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me. — Jesus · 60Hippocrates1 quote
It is well to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self, so as to observe what it seemly. — Hippocrates · 370 BCMenander1 quote
This is living, not to live unto oneself alone. — Menander · 290 BCWalt Whitman1 quote
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God. — Walt Whitman · 1855William Blake1 quote
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars;
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer:
For art and science cannot exist but in the minutely organized particulars. — William Blake · 1820William Wordsworth1 quote
The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of Love. — William Wordsworth · 1798