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«Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength»
«Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly.»
«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.»
«If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.»
«May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.»
«Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.»
«I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.»
«In a gentle way, you can shake the world.»
«He that is gentle to the brutal will end up being brutal to the gentle»
Author: The Talmud | Keywords: brutal, end up, gentle
«His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!»

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