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• Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

  Deborah Harkness

  Memories, World, Way

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.1027, Penguin

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• Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Art, Queens

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

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• People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

  Eileen Brennan

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Broadway, Hollywood actress Eileen Brennan dies", www.sfgate.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every child makes a dreadful nuisance of itself by asking 'Why?'. To stop this nuisance society has invented a marvellous system called education which, for the majority of people, brings to an end their desire to ask that question. The few failures of this system are known as scientists.

  Hermann Bondi

  Education, Children, Science

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• For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Hard Work, Self, Skills

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• If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

  Albert Ellis

  Hate, Upset, Impossible

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• My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

  Kristin Hersh

  Parent, World, Treats

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• I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Thinking, Mind

  'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' (1963 song)

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• My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

  Mark Gatiss

  Dad, Figures, Realising

  "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.

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• If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Encounters, Lack Of Love, Today

  Twitter post from Sep 29, 2016

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• I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind.

  Robert Johnson

  Baby, Travel, Hate

  Song: Rambling on My Mind

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• God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Prayer, Heart

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• Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fall, Yield, Mind

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• Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

  Guy Finley

  Mirrors, Action, Blame

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• I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Responsibility, Fighting

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Sorry, Eye

  "How Can I Become the Woman of Whom I Dream?". Ensign magazine, p. 93, May 2001.

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• Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

  Suzy Kassem

  Common Sense, Kind, Speak

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• It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

  Steven Runciman

  Latin, Son, Greek

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• When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

  Neil Diamond

  Love, Love Is

  Song: Like You Do, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996

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• January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.

  Michael Flanders

  Sweet, Spring, Ice

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• I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

  James Nesbitt

  Wise, Strong, Enough

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

  Edna O'Brien

  Kindness, All Kinds

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• Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

  David Rockefeller

  Disrespect, Incivility, Edges

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

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• To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Sunshine, Dark

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