Definition of Alms

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Definition of Alms
	Alms Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. Related Definitions: Anything, As, Charity, Clothing, Food, Gift, Given, Money, Of, Or, Poor, Relieve, The, To

Alms Quotations

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John Ruskin

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
Lord Acton

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Maxim Gorky

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Ben Hecht

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
Robert Grosseteste

Alms Translations

alms in Afrikaans is aalmoes
alms in Danish is almisse
alms in Dutch is aalmoes
alms in German is Almosen {pl}
alms in Latin is elemosina
alms in Spanish is limosna, limosnas
alms in Swedish is allmosa

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