Gentle Quotes - Page 33

• Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
  By his own talents he worked his undoing.
  Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
  Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

  Ovid

  Love, Sports, Lying

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• Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

  Herman Melville

  Women, Wife, Firsts

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.17, Herman Melville

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• There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Men, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

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• In my Lifetime, I hope to develop, Arms that are strong, Hands that are gentle, Ears that will listen, Eyes that are kind, A tongue that will speak softly, A mind full of wisdom, A heart that understands.

  Javan

  Strong, Heart, Eye

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• Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

  Gus Van Sant

  Rose, Drug, Brain

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• ... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

  Carl Rakosi

  Kindness, Men, Connections

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• On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

  Sarah Fielding

  Reading, Air, Wings

  Sarah Fielding (1986). “The cry (1754)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

  China Machado

  Makeup, Water, Ponds

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• How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Daughter, Sweet

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• Trusting God's plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Art, Secret, God's Plan

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Am I Messing Up My Kids?: ...and Other Questions Every Mom Asks”, p.208, Harvest House Publishers

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• Many young girls are ... becoming trained nurses,
  whose gentle ministrations in the sick-room, skilled touch,
  patient watchfulness and unwearied vigils,
  are as great factors in the care of the sick,
  as are the professional physicians.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Girl, Nurse, Sick

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• Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gold, Doe, Radiance

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• All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
  You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak

  Margaret Walker

  Heart, Dreamer, Violence

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

  E. B. White

  Wise, Dark, Gleam

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Flames, Funeral

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• I was a fitness fiasco - until I found Pilates . . . It's been the most gentle on my body I'm longer and leaner and much more graceful. I can honestly say it's changed my body - and my life.

  Chelsea Handler

  Body, Pilates, Found

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• Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Retirement, Grief, Meditation

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• Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Mean, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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• Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Character, Men

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• The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Dirty

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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• To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem.
  To meditate means to observe.
  Your smile proves it.
  It proves that you are being gentle with yourself,
  that the sun of awareness is shining in you,
  that you have control of your situation.
  You are yourself,
  and you have acquired some peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.13, Parallax Press

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• The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.

  William H. Gass

  Drinking, Eye, Animal

  William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Nature, Winning

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• Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Mean, Violence, Achieve

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