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Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#good #great #nurturing #patience #persistent

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. ↗

— Peter Thomson

#sensitive #tender #ton #touch #worth

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. ↗

— Voltaire

#hell #made #paradise #tender

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #been #believe #child #delay

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#did #dire #drinks #get #how