Quotes with gentleness

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• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

  Pierre Corneille
  French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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• Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

  Hugh Blair
  Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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• Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

  Phaedrus

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• 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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• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

  Han Suyin
  Chinese-European writer (ps. by Elizabeth Comber) (1916 - 2012)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inexpressible
• steadiness
• resentment
• legitimate
• suggestive
• tenderness

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