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“For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.”

Mind Kindness Benefits Noble Fades Begets Evermore

Author:Sophocles

“Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.”

People Heart Character Courses Evil Easy Effort Secret Kindness Rewards Noble Wicked Refrain Steers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.”

Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

“You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.”

Ifs World Needs Challenges Kindness Plans Influence Holy Skills Mercy Noble Satan Within You Mute

Author:Max Lucado

“A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.”

Ifs Giving Should Trying Challenges Kindness Successful Integrity Giving Up Should Have Exciting Noble Villain Decency Fingertips Villainy

Author:Daniel Handler

“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.”

Ifs Humans Matter Government Evil Kindness Ill Noble Objectives Human Life Suspicion Wickedness Decency Blur Ill Will Evil Government

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.”

Heart Happiness Spirit Kindness Mankind Spring Affection Noble Sensitive Nobility

Book:Khalil The Heretic

Source: Khalil The Heretic