Gentle Quotes
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
Dante Alighieri
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It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
Hilary Mantel
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.
George Washington
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One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.
Ezra Taft Benson
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And above it all, the gentle, eternal stars.
Jules Laforgue
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Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell
Teresa Medeiros
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
Thomas More
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
Ray Bradbury
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
Will Durant
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Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.
Stuart Wilde