Gentleness

Explore 3 quotes about Gentleness

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

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Topic

Vulnerability Patience Gentleness

Speaker

Jenny Wren aka Fanny Cleaver

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Our Mutual Friend

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, Mar. 1865, pt. 11, bk. 3, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 2.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Gentleness Vulnerability

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven The Wind Among the Reeds

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well exposed, as by his manners.

Edmund Spenser

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Topic

Gentleness Manners

Author

Edmund Spenser

Source

The Faerie Queene

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1596 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1596, bk. 6, canto 3.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos, edited by Andrew Hadfield and Abraham Stoll. Hackett Publishing Company, 2007, bk. 6, canto 3.