Gentle Quotes
1044 quotes by 754 authors
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And…
— George Crabbe
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Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
— Charles Lamb
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The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound,…
— Unknown Author
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When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.
— Marjolein Bastin
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Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to…
— Colleen Houck
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There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being…
— Unknown Author
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Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
— Bhartrhari
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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog…
— Plato
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Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with…
— Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
— Dante Alighieri
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In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk.…
— Theodore J. Forstmann
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They…
— M. Scott Peck
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I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life,…
— John Ruskin
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I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who…
— Unknown Author
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I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.
— David Ogilvy
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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them.…
— Cassandra Clare
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