Quotes with kindness

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  • Kahlil Gibran Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • John Dewey We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • James Boswell We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We hate the kindness which we understand.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Libby Houston When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
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  • Seneca Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Amy Tan Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Basil of Caesarea A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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