Quotes with gentle-hearted

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  • Helen Rowland Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Cass Sunstein For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Robert Burns Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - we had never been broken-hearted.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Becky Stark I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
    I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
    And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
    And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
    And I love the garden rose.
    Imagine Our Love Garden Rose
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Mahatma Gandhi In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bell Hooks In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Mark Twain It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Bob Keeshan It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Ching Ning Chu It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bob Keeshan It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Beny Steinmetz It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.
    Beny Steinmetz
    Israeli businessman
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  • Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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