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| Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. |
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| Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. (Psalms 143:8) |
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| Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses |
| Confucius |
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| Forget injuries; never forget kindness. |
| Confucius |
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| Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e |
| Buddha |
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| Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. |
| George Sand |
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| Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. |
| George Eliot |
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| It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder |
| Aldous Huxley |
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