A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The voice of the Spirit is described in the scriptures as being neither loud nor harsh, not a voice of thunder, neither… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes,… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
