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Quote by Virginia Woolf

“To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.”

Book:Selected essays

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Selected essays

This book compiles a selection of essays that delve into diverse subjects, offering insights and perspectives on a range of topics. more

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Virginia Woolf

British modernist writer, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound portrayal of female experience. Her works include 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Mrs. Dalloway'. more

“Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable, yet not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying, yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.”

Ifs Men Kind May Littles Self Values Left Common Kindness Grace Ten Prejudice Add Merciful Uncommon Charitable

Author:Frederick William Faber

“There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.”

Self Kindness Cost Be Good His Love

Author:George H. W. Bush

“When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.”

People Kids Kindness Cry Adults Cruelty Make You Cry

Book:The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)

Source: The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)

“Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.”

People Hands Evil Easy Secret Kindness Rocks Strive Ill Credit Generous Temper Refrain Love And Kindness Kindness To Others

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.”

Social Kindness Intercourse Velvet

Author:James Leonard Gordon

“Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.”

World Character Beautiful Kindness Color Window Sight Practicals Woven Hideous Cathedrals

Author:James Leonard Gordon

“Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.”

Hands Kindness Angel

Author:James Leonard Gordon

“Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.”

Source: Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians

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