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Gentle Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
- The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
- Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons…
More Gentle Quotes
- 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 we become… — Joseph Addison
- The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot… — Conrad Black
- Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — William S. Burroughs
- No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it,… — Alan Alda
- Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans… — 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 and gentle… — Nick Cave
- Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that… — James Allen
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is… — 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 gentle breeze… — Grover Cleveland