#kindly

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ↗

— Mencius

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Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. ↗