Fondness Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fondness Kindness Power
Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
Kindness is the ability to love people more than they really deserve — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness… — John MacAulay Copy Share Image
A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. — Richard Dehmel Copy Share Image
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image