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Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning. - Rev. Frederick William Faber If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. - William Feather Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. - Octave Feuillet Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. - David Garrick, Epilogue on Quitting the Stage Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. - Sir Arthur Helps Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps One kindly deed may turn The fountain of thy soul To love's sweet day-star, that shall o'er thee burn Long as its currents roll. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XXIV, l. 523), (Pope's translation) A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. - Washington Irving How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles! - Washington Irving He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. - Douglas William Jerrold Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert Kindness is virtue itself. - Alphonse de Lamartine There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. - Walter Savage Landor One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. - David Herbert Lawrence Though he was rough, he was kindly. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. III) The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Mother Bombie (act III, sc. 1) Kindness, the poetry of the heart. - Aime Martin There is no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. - Gerald Massey There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. - Gerald Massey, There's no Dearth of Kindness Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. - Mencius A small unkindness is a great offence. - Hannah More Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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