You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
[Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos
hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, read more
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness read more
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, read more
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am read more
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
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He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]
