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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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.
He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
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He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted
against his own interest.
[Lat., Colubram sustulit
Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]