Quotes with gentle

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  • George Eliot Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Herford Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Charles Dickens Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Alan Alda No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Pope Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Walter Benjamin Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • C. S. Lewis The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John Ruskin The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • George Herbert There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • George Herbert Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Barbara Bush Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ben Jonson What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew,
    Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Robert Southey What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Sigmund Freud Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Barry Cornwall Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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