"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man……" — Douglas William Jerrold
"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain."
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39 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some…
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply…
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A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours…
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We love peace, but not peace at any price.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
— Sun Tzu
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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in…
— Sun Tzu
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
— Joseph Hall
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
— Karl Pearson
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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