Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The best I had, a princess wrought it me--
And I did never ask it you again;
And with my hand at midnight held your head,
And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,
Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'
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I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses
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.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
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Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on.
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.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. read more
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
