(129 quotes found)
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.”
John Milton
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night and the winter's snow,In the naked and outcast, seek Love there!”
William Blake
“A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a hair”
Iranian Proverb
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full”
William Shakespeare
““If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.””
Carlos Castaneda
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength”
St. Francis de Sales
“His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!”
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed”
Benjamin Franklin
