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Quotes About Gentle

But you were born to gentle dreams,
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Le cadeva addosso una malinconia dolce come una carezza lieve, che le stringeva il cuore a volte, un desiderio vago di cose ignote.
~ Giovanni Verga
We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.
~ Goa Kerle
For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.
~ James A. Michener
Love is the Supreme Reality in the universe, and as such it contains all Truth. Infinite Tenderness enfolds and cherishes the universe; therefore is the wise man gentle and childlike and tender-hearted.
~ James Allen
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
~ James Boswell
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
~ Michael Heizer
If you're really unfit and you want to get into fitness, just starting at home with some really basic, gentle stuff is going to build up your confidence and your fitness. This way, if you do decide to join a gym, you're not going to be really intimidated and just run out the door.
~ Joe Wicks
Love is free, but priceless.Wisdom is precious, but costless.Faith is gentle, but fearless.Joy is scarce, but limitless.Truth is simple, but matchless.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.
~ James Gillis
To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women we were designed to be.
~ Helen Andelin
I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City' in L.A. because L.A. is a much gentler place. The standard of living is so different.
~ Darren Star
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
~ Roderick Haig-Brown
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
~ William Shakespeare
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
~ Alexander Pope
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
~ Ovid
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
~ Francis William Newman
In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man.
~ Terry Lee Rioux
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
~ Thomas a Kempis
But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires:— Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.
~ Thomas Carew