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“For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.”

Knows Friendship Kindness Know How Friends Return

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose

“Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.”

“It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.”

“I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.”

Knows Might Given Kindness Know How Mines Birth Charity Cruelty Love And Kindness

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

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Author:George Sand

“She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.”

Ifs Knows Years Self Lasts Compassion Kindness Know How Longing Seeds Mask Warmth Nurture Coldness Hardness

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.”

Knows Way I Can Kindness Know How Blow Block Poison Knives Dozen Wire Dodge Impervious

Author:R.L. LaFevers

“You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”

Knows Want Life Kind Different Death Kindness Know How Dying Scared Do You Know

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”

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Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles