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Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it and may learn.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Till in Heaven the deed appears--
Pass it on.
Author: Rev. Henry Burton
Source: Pass It On
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I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
[Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos
hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (II, 14)
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Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Author: David Garrick
Source: Epilogue on Quitting the Stage
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And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXIV, l. 523), (Pope's translation)
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Though he was rough, he was kindly.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. III)
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The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Mother Bombie (act III, sc. 1)
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There's no dearth of kindness
In the world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers.
Author: Gerald Massey
Source: There's no Dearth of Kindness
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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.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (bk. IV, 18)
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired
friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque
dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
Author: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
Source: Catilina (VI)
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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Thyestes (CCXIV)
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, i)
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Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The best I had, a princess wrought it me--
And I did never ask it you again;
And with my hand at midnight held your head,
And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,
Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Arthur at IV, i)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at I, v)
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If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
[Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
[Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
Author: Richard Carlson
Source: None
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That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: None
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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.
Author: George Sand
Source: None
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Author: A A Milne
Source: None
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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.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Author: Scott Adams
Source: None
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Author: Dalai Lama
Source: None
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Author: John Dewey
Source: None
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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Author: Bailey
Source: None
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
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What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: None
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Author: Sir Arthur Helps
Source: None
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Author: Malayan Proberb
Source: None
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Author: Olive Schreiner
Source: None
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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Source: None
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Author: Lin Yutang
Source: None
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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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.
Author: Austin Farrar
Source: None
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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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.
Author: Demosthenes
Source: None
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Just for today, I will let go of anger.
Just for today, I will let go of worry.
Today, I will count my many blessings.
Today, I will do my work honestly.
Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
Author: Mikao Usui
Source: None
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Kwon Yin from China
Jesus from Israel
Buddha from India
Rumi from Afghanistan
Martin Luther King from America
Leo Tolstoy from Russia
and
millions of anonymous women and men
live nonviolence
http://PostPoems.com/members/ar.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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The only religion is kindness.
Author: Dalai Lama
Source: None
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.
Author: Charles Kuralt
Source: None
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I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. -B. C. Forbes.
Author: B. C. Forbes
Source: None
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
Author: Eric Hoffer
Source: None
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