Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you."
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Gentle
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Willie Nelson
Musician, Actor
"Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there."
Catherine the Great
Empress
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
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"War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle."
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"Gentle time will heal our sorrows."
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"Take the gentle path."
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"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep."
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"I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing."
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"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad."
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"There is great force hidden in a sweet command."
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"Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty."
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"We must be gentle now we are gentlemen."
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"Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell"
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"Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life."
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"The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]"
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"It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient."
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"A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]"
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"Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude."
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"I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have"
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"Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know."
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"Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing."
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"Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain."
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"Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman."
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