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Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
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.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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
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?'
Though he was rough, he was kindly.
Though he was rough, he was kindly.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of read more
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
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Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.