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Kindness in giving creates love.
Kindness in giving creates love.
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.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and read more
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing read more
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
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.]
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.