Great Throughts Treasury

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Hugh Blair

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

Behavior | Character | Gentleness | Religion | Spirit | Temper |

Thomas Chalmers

Benevolence is not in word and in tongue, but in deed and in truth. It is a business with men as they are, and with human life as drawn by the rough hand of experience. It is a duty which you must perform at the call of principle; though there be no voice of eloquence to give splendor to your exertions, and no music of poetry to lead your willing footsteps through the bowers of enchantment. It is not the impulse of high and ecstatic emotion. It is an exertion of principle. :You must go to the poor man’s cottage, though no verdure flourish around it, the gentleness of its murmurs. If you look for the romantic simplicity of fiction you will be disappointed; but it is your duty to persevere in spite of every discouragement. Benevolence is not merely a feeling but a principle; not a dream of rapture for the fancy to indulge in, but a business for the hand to execute.

Benevolence | Business | Character | Duty | Experience | Gentleness | Impulse | Life | Life | Man | Men | Music | Poetry | Simplicity | Truth | Will | Business |

James Henry Leigh Hunt

Patience and gentleness are power.

Character | Gentleness | Patience | Power |

Leo Rosten, fully Leo Calvin Rosten, pen name Leonard Q. Ross

It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Character | Gentleness |

Samuel Smiles

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Character | Courage | Deeds | Gentleness | Means | Men | Tenderness |

John Hall

Keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with persons. Do not needlessly report ill of others. As far as possible, dwell on the good side of human beings. There are family boards where a constant process of depreciating, assigning motives, and cutting up character goes forward. They are not pleasant places. One who is healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting table. There is evil enough in man, God knows. But it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible, and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

Character | Charity | Conversation | Enough | Evil | Family | Gentleness | God | Good | Man | Mission | Motives | Wisdom | Woman | God |

John Hall

There is evil enough in man, God knows; but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

Charity | Enough | Evil | Gentleness | God | Man | Mission | Wisdom | Woman | God |

J. Martin Klotsche

Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning "between" and legere meaning "to choose." An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned "to choose between." He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

Arrogance | Better | Compassion | Confidence | Cruelty | Evil | Fear | Forbearance | Gentleness | Good | Hate | Ignorance | Intelligence | Intolerance | Love | Meaning | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Words |

Terence, full Latin name Publius Terentius Afer NULL

It is better to bind your children to you by respect and gentleness than by fear.

Better | Children | Fear | Gentleness | Respect | Wisdom | Respect |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the harsh progress of mankind.

Care | Gentleness | Mankind | Progress |

Saint Francis de Sales NULL

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Gentleness | Time |

Mahabharata or The Mahabharata NULL

One should forgive, under any injury. It hath been said that the continuation of the species is due to man’s being forgiving. Forgiveness is holiness; by forgiveness the universe is held together. Forgiveness is the might of the mighty; forgiveness is sacrifice; forgiveness is the might of the mighty; forgiveness is sacrifice; forgiveness is quiet of mind. Forgiveness and gentleness are the qualities of the Self-possessed. They represent eternal virtue.

Eternal | Forgiveness | Gentleness | Man | Mind | Qualities | Quiet | Sacrifice | Self | Universe | Virtue | Virtue | Forgiveness |

Claudian, latin Claudius Claudianus NULL

Power can do by gentleness that which violence fails to accomplish; and calmness best enforces the imperial mandate.

Calmness | Gentleness | Power |

Claudian, latin Claudius Claudianus NULL

Power can do by gentleness that which violence fails to accomplish; and calmness best enforces the imperial mandate.

Calmness | Gentleness | Power |

Fran Lebowitz, fully Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Courtesy | Gentleness | People | Sense | Politeness | Old | Value |

F. D. Maurice, fully John Frederick Denison "F.D." Maurice

Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.

Gentleness | Love | Progress | Rule | Spirit |

Leo Busacaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Gentleness |