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Forget injuries; never forget kindness.
Forget injuries; never forget kindness.
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
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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?'
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there read more
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old read more
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi read more
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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.]
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.