A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Tenderness: Quotations from Burning Words

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.— SOUTH
When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.— GEORGE ELIOT
While we would have our young sisters imitate, as they cannot fail to love, the conduct of Ruth, will not their elders do well to ponder on, and imitate the tenderness of Naomi? Would we have our daughters Ruths, we must be Naomis.— GRACE AGUILAR
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