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Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good read more
Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
[Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito read more
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
[Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more read more
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!
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and read more
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
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.]
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.