"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle……" — Aeschylus

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila
• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet… — Joseph Addison
• The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but… — Conrad Black
• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous… — William S. Burroughs
• No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better… — Alan Alda
• Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the… — Barbara Bush
• Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. — Julia Cameron
• The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive… — Nick Cave
• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without… — James Allen
• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. — Frank A. Clark
• I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a… — Grover Cleveland

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