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Kindness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Home.

Their cause I plead-plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.— DAVID GARRICK — Epilogue on Quitting

the Stage. June, 1776. And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. XXIV. L. 523.

Pope's trans. Though he was rough, he was kindly.— LONGFELLOW — Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. III.

There's no dearth of kindness In this world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.— GERALD MASSEY — There's no Dearth of

Kindness. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkerchief about your brows, The best I had, a princess wrought it me, And I did never ask it you again; And with my hand at midnight held your head, And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time, Saying, "What lack you?" and, "Where aying ies lies your grief?"— Shakespeare — King John. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 41.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 14.

Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis. It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.— CICERO — De Officiis. II. 14.

Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi. I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.— PLAUTUS — Aulularia. II. 2. 30.

Ita comparatam esse naturam omnium, aliena ut melius videant et dijudicent, quam sua. The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their own.— TERENCE — Heauton-Timoroumenos.

III. 1. 94. Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo. With his own sword do I stab this man.— TERENCE — Adelphi. V. 8. 35.

Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos. Being admonished, learn justice and despise not the gods.— VIRGIL — Eneid. VI. 620.

Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges. It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.— SYRUS — Maxims.