A Quote by Edmund Spenser
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.
God in his harmony has equal ends
For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
The somber human troop.
As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization.
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