Gentle Quotes - Page 19

• What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

  Edward Mayhew

  Horse, Teaching, Animal

  Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10

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• I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

  Margaret Fuller

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (1984). “The letters of Margaret Fuller”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.

  George Washington

  Mean, Hands, Order

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.17

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• Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Passion, Desire

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.31, BookBaby

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• I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

  Thomas Traherne

  Love, Kings, War

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Sacrifice, Men, Compassion

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.

  Jule Styne

  Knowing, Ambitious, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Complaining, Resentment

  Mark Twain (1917). “Mark Twain's Letters”

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• Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh sweet, sweet Lord of hosts for the smörgåsbord You have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear Lord three things we pray to love Thee more dearly, to see Thee more clearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.

  Ben Stiller

  Sweet, Dear Lord, Sms

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• I like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy. I’m really gentle, and so I like a boy who will treat me that way.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Boys, Energy

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  Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

  Judy Garland

  Empathy, Littles, Wonderful

  "Little Girl Lost". Book by Al DiOrio, 1974.

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• By nature, your soul is soft, gentle, loving and kind. It is forgiving, peaceful, and humble. Confident and comforting in times of despair, your soul is strong, focused, and determined in the mission called life.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Humble, Soul

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• Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed, and don’t drive crazy on weed. They just get hungry, don’t go out of the house, or laugh a lot. I think it would make for a much more gentle world.

  Susan Sarandon

  Weed, Crazy, Drinking

  "Susan Sarandon on Her Love Affair With David Bowie, Woody Allen’s Creepiness, and Psychedelics". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. July 24, 2014.

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• Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

  Rita Hayworth

  Mean, Personality, Gentle Person

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• What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Kings, Crazy, Real

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• I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

  Ann Coulter

  Decision, Be Kind, Retard

  twitter.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Pain, Hate

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.269, Crown Forum

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• I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• O gentle vision in the dawn:
  My spirit over faint cool water glides,
  Child of the day,
  To thee;
  And thou art drawn
  By kindred impulse over silver tides
  The dreamy way
  To me.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Children, Water

  Harold Monro, “Child Of Dawn”

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• Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Moving, Optimistic, Simple

  "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

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• On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
  Light yourself a candle bright.
  I'll you, if you will me invite
  To dance within that gentle light.

  Nick Gordon

  Dark, Night, Light

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• Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Anger, Animal, Blood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Writing, Childhood

  The Paris Review, 1956.

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• Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Feet, Expression

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• There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Crush, Baby

  "Adam Bede".

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