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"Only the gentle are ever really strong." »James Dean
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"Be gentle with the young." »Juvenal
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"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself." »Saint Teresa of Avila
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"Do not go gentle into that good night." »Dylan Thomas
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"To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle." »Sophocles
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"Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle." »Will Durant
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"Culture makes all men gentle." »Menander
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"Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil." »Vachel Lindsay
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." »Ralph W. Sockman
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"Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength." »Saint Francis de Sales
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"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy." »Homer
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"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others." »Francois Fenelon
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"Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone." »Proverbs 2515 Bible
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"His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!" »William Shakespeare
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"His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN" »William Shakespeare
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"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder." »Carl Sandburg
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"A gentle breeze, a rustle of leaves, it's times like this life pleases with ease." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance." »Walter Benjamin
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"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." »Eric Hoffer
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"By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows." »Ovid
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"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." »Oscar Ameringer
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"A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it." »Hastings
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"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." »Alan Alda
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"The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." »William Shakespeare
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more." »Agnes Repplier
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"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory." »Douglas MacArthur
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others." »Sa?di
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"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others." »Wilfred A. Peterson
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