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• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

  Thomas Nagel

  Conceited, Psychology, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.

  William Wordsworth

  Fear, Clouds, Anxiety

  1804 'The Affliction of Margaret', stanza 10 (published 1807).

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• He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Mind, Blunt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1131, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

  Barbara Sher

  Meaningful, Criticism, Purpose

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• I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Our World, Mind

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.333, Vintage Canada

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• Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

  Tennessee Williams

  Humanity, Disgusting, Humans

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.363, New Directions Publishing

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• Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Thinking, Church

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'At Maubeuge'.

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• Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, People, Imagine

  Marcel Proust (2003). “The Guermantes way”, ePenguin

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• There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.

  William Saroyan

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  William Saroyan (1992). “The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories”, p.141, New Directions Publishing

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• Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Men, Shadow

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Morning, Night, Expression

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• Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.

  George Washington Carver

  Mean, Hands, Years

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• We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Ifs

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• If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Fall, Angel

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• Sometimes you do get tired in the business from all the traveling. No one outside of the business realizes what we go through. ... Sometimes you don't mean to be unkind, but sometimes you're tired and do things you don't mean. I know the real fans understand.

  Tammy Wynette

  Real, Tired, Mean

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• When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sweet, Heart, People

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• Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Sacrifice, Men

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• I don't think I have an unkind word for any.Except Muslims. I've been cross with them since 9/11 2001. I can't remember why but it was something bad.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Unkind Words, Remember

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Knowledge, Thinking

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• Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Flesh Eating, May

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• In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sex, Revenge, War

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• a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Clever, Unjust, Enough

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at the Miss Minchin's Boarding School”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• Think me not unkind and rude
  That I walk alone in grove and glen;
  I go to the god of the wood
  To fetch his word to men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Rude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Way

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