“ We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ”
- Joan Baez- Copy
- 3.8K
“ We may make mistakes — but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principles. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Sendentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none. ”
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
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“ I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me. ”
- Nicole Kidman- Copy
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“ To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. ”
- Flannery O’Connor- Copy
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“ Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Let me urge that we keep clear of two besetting sins — hardness of heart and softness of head. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ”
- Joan Baez- Copy
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“ I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George. ”
- Williams Childs- Copy
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“ My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness — if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor — but as I am I must call it laziness… ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager… ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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