"Some delicate matters must be treated like pins,……" — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the… — Diane Ackerman
• The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
• The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. — Max Beerbohm
• Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so… — Annie Besant
• It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings
• People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate. — Frank Bruno
• To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the… — Alex Faickney Osborn
• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow — William Shakespeare
• Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein
• You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place… — Esther Hicks

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