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Altruist

noun

Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being. Synonym: philanthropist.

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"Altruist" Quotes from Famous Books

... to ourselves. Yet all this is to be done, not merely for the sake of the present, but in view of an eternal destiny, and because we can thus only fulfil God's will and attain to holy oneness with him. George Eliot did, however, throughout her writings, identify the altruist impulse to live for others with the Christian doctrine of the cross. To her, the life of devotion to humanity, which she has so beautifully presented in the poem, "O may I join the Choir Invisible," was the true interpretation of the Christian doctrine of self-sacrifice. ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... "Was I ever an altruist, petite soeur? If the man had not made you happy, I should never have rested till I had you back again. As it is—" he shrugged his shoulders with an expressive turn of the hands—"one is glad—for your sake; and one makes the best of an empty house. But, mon Dieu! it is ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... Mary's desire to see the trousseau evaporated on the instant. No girl would be so eager to show things which were not worth showing. And Mary was no altruist to rejoice over other ...

— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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