Quote by Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel John

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag. – Ram Dass

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The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way. – Robert Alan

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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop

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You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. – Rumi

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When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity. – Vladimir Kramnik

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