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• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Lovable, Haitian

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• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  Garrison Keillor

  Vanity, People, Greed

  "We Are Still Married : Stories & Letters". Book by Garrison Keillor, "The Meaning of Life", 1989.

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• But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Drama, Heart, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Cat, Giving, Pet

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, Powerful, Hammers

  "Robert Frost & the New England Renaissance". Book by George Monteiro (p. 74), September 27, 1988.

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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

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

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• I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

  Kim Novak

  Beautiful, Rights, Lovely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

  Francis William Newman

  Powerful, Men, Instinct

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• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Love, Military, Army

  Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)

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• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Gentleman, Absent

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.15, Sophia Institute Press

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• My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Wife, Lambs, Sauce

  Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria

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• Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

  George Herbert

  God, Wrath, Literature

  'Discipline', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• As for me, I used to be a bird
  with a gentle white womb,
  someone cut my throat
  just for laughs,
  I don’t know.
  As for me, I used to be a great albatross
  and whirled over the seas.
  Someone put an end to my journey,
  without any charity in the tone of it.
  But even stretched out on the ground
  I sing for you now
  my songs of love.

  Alda Merini

  Song, Cutting, Journey

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Arrogance, Way

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• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  Michelangelo

  Pain, Inspiration, Delight

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Ass, Reader

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Son, Concern, Governors

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Good Night, Wise, Dark

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorry, Rain, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

  Mitt Romney

  Love, Family, Mother

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

  Roald Dahl

  Country, Heart, Tanks

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
  Beloved from pole to pole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep, Beloved, Funny Sleep

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 293 (1798)

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