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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
• The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — John Fletcher

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