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• It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

  Frederick Douglass

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• Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

  Frank Muir

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• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.

  Frank Howard Clark

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• A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

  George Herbert

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• Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

  George Herbert

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  In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  Garrison Keillor

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• No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

  Victor Hugo

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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  Be completely humble and gentle; be patient; bearing with one another in love.

  Unknown

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• What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

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• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• I’m surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I’m so grateful for every day that I’m on the planet and that continues to be so.

  Richard O'Brien

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• 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

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• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  Michelangelo

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• Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• Culture makes all men gentle.

  Menander

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• It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

  René Char

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• My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

  Alvin Ailey

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