Gentlest Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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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
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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
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Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.
— Richard Bach
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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
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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
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
— Bryan Procter
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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
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.
— Petrarch
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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
— Pat Conroy
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
— Walter Smith
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Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn…
— John Fletcher
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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
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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
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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
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My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.
— Kevin McCloud
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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
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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
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The grossest insult is crumbled before the gentlest irony.
— Ilkin Santak
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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
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Gentlest Quotes as follows: