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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. -- Marlene Dietrich
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. -- John Adams
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting. -- Liane Moriarty
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
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures! -- Anne Bronte
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. -- Ansel Adams
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. -- George Jean Nathan
I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. -- Mo Rocca
I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items. -- Roma Downey
Judge tenderly of me. -- Emily Dickinson
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Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you. -- Anatole France
Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. -- Henry David Thoreau
The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me -- Langston Hughes
The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly. -- Samuel Johnson
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Free Yourself helps you learn to tenderly hold your heart with your own loving hands. -- Jacob Liberman
The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator. -- Jaggi Vasudev
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." -- Charles Dickens
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime. -- Tara Brach
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See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly". -- Vincent Van Gogh
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . -- John Adams
When we feel too drained to move forward, God is right there with us, ready to tenderly revive and restore us. -- Teresa Santoski
He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. -- Lilith Saintcrow
Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you. -- Ray Charles
The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy. -- Stephen King
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. -- Louisa May Alcott
The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. -- Arthur Koestler
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. -- Charles Spurgeon
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it." -- Charles H. Spurgeon
The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly. -- Mark Nepo
Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way. -- Ann Aguirre
Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling. -- William Wordsworth
In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nikolai stroked her cheek, then wrapped her in his embrace. "You're safe," he said tenderly beside her ear. "I've got you, and I'm going to keep you safe. -- Tina St. John
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared. -- Mother Teresa
God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance. -- Horace Bushnell
Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose. -- Lisa Kleypas
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. -- Henry David Thoreau
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight. -- Traci Lea LaRussa
None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger. -- Emmeline B. Wells
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. -- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them. -- Helen Keller
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting. -- Kate Wilhelm
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves. -- Brigham Young
If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer. -- Ole Hallesby
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More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story. -- David Blankenhorn
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at. -- Anton Chekhov

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