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Tag Name "Mildness" (9)

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That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.
Magha
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To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.
Al-Kindi
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Baron de Montesquieu
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Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.
Carol Emshwiller
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
Henry Knox
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
Baron de Montesquieu
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
Bertrand Russell
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Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Democritus
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
Johann Kaspar Lavater