Gentle Quotes

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Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead. — William Holden
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. — Mahatma Gandhi
To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the… — Margrit Mondavi
Adde, quod ingÃ©nues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle. — Ovid
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon… — Mark Twain
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as… — John Andreas Widtsoe
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle… — Richard G. Scott
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they… — Laozi
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is… — Freya Stark
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,… — Charles Dickens
Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty… — Rebecca Ruter Springer
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient. — Mark Twain
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they… — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns… — Edward Mayhew
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle… — Margaret Fuller
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:… — George Washington
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. — Mignon McLaughlin
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy… — George Santayana

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