You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
I would rather clean than beg.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
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