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“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”
Orson Scott Card
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
T.S. Eliot
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
Victor Hugo
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”
Maya Angelou
“A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.”
Marjorie Holmes
“What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness”
Sylvia Plath
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.”
Louis Pasteur
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