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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. read more
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good read more
Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, read more
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more read more
You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And read more
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
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Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.