Gentle Quotes

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. — George Herbert
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. — Dorothy Parker
Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you. — Theophile Gautier
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems… — George Eliot
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,… — Richard Bach
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we… — John Banville
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then… — Carl Rogers
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as… — Pindar
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to… — Jimmy Carter
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if… — Mikhail Lermontov
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain. — William Shakespeare
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resoluteâ€”under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any… — Walt Whitman
The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the… — Isaac Babel
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who… — Robertson Davies
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. — Joseph Priestley
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women… — Jocelynne Scutt
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak… — Laozi
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. — Oliver Goldsmith

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