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Kindness Quotes


These are some of the best 'Kindness' quotations and sayings.


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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Ask thyself, daily, to how many ill-minded persons thou hast shown a kind disposition.

At little more than kin, and less than kind.

Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity.

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind.

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

I had rather never receive a kindness, than never bestow one. - Not to return a benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer it, is the earlier.

I have sped much by land, and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

It is good for us to think no grace or blessing truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.


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