Gentlest Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true. — Richard Bach
All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This… — Laozi
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! — Bryan Procter
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. — Pat Conroy
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. — Walter Smith
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn… — John Fletcher
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the… — Asger Jorn
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am… — Thomas de Quincey
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew. — Kevin McCloud
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of… — Arabian Proverb
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of… — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The grossest insult is crumbled before the gentlest irony. — Ilkin Santak
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. — WJ Cameron

Who Wrote These Gentlest Quotes

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