Gentle Quotes

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Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer… — Saint Francis de Sales
Do not go gentle into that good night. — Dylan Thomas
The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a… — Walt Disney
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ,… — C. I. Scofield
This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody… — Amy Dickinson
Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of… — Stanislaw Lem
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in… — Khalil Gibran
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and… — Marcus Aurelius
Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From… — William Wordsworth
The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward… — Winston Churchill
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your… — Bernard of Clairvaux
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages.… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences. — Bill Vaughan
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. — Heinrich Heine
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape… — John Greenleaf Whittier
What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To… — John Keats

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