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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. -- William Shakespeare
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. -- George Eliot
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. -- Nelson DeMille
Drink down all unkindness. -- William Shakespeare
Unkindness is quite a major sin. -- John Rhys-Davies
A small unkindness is a great offence. -- Hannah More
Give me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all unkindness. -- William Shakespeare
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. -- Hosea Ballou
And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. -- William Shakespeare
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. -- Walter Savage Landor
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. -- Mother Teresa
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. -- Hosea Ballou
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. -- Jeremy Bentham
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness. -- Mother Teresa
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you. -- John Owen
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way. -- bell hooks
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. -- Hannah More
Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced. -- Brigham Young
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it. When you love God, and when you see God in every soul, you cannot be mean. If someone behaves hurtfully toward you, think of the best ways to behave lovingly toward him... -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received. -- Samuel Johnson
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. -- Adrienne Monnier
One of my greatest struggles is, and has been for a long time, seeing unkindness on this planet. Unkindness and inconsideration. I try to help that by being more conscientious and helpful towards our fellow brothers and sisters. -- Kelly LeBrock
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. -- Tamsin Greig
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. -- Walter Savage Landor
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. -- Patrick White
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive. -- Nimrat Kaur
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. -- Preston Brooks
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. -- Mother Teresa
Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. -- Mother Teresa
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue. -- William Ellery Channing
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could. -- Joan of Arc
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Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. -- Neil Gaiman
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets. -- Jennifer Weiner
When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently. -- Christopher Earle
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages. -- Jane Austen
Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions. -- Neale Donald Walsch
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence. -- Philip Pullman
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in. -- John Owen
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life -- Karen Armstrong

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