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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.
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All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
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a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it
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we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection
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Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.
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We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.
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In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.
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Who has not known those silent moments which separated the lips to reunite the souls?
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In love there is no first nor last!
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Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.
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Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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The result of it all may be summed up in his favourite motto, “Be kind, for every one is fighting a hard battle.”
Platomisattributed·“Ian Maclaren”: The Life of the Rev. John Watson, D.D., by W. Robertson Nicoll·1908
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Attributed to Plato constantly, and to Philo of Alexandria almost as often; it is in neither. The words belong to John Watson, a Liverpool Presbyterian minister who wrote fiction as Ian Maclaren, and they are recorded here by his biographer and editor as his favourite motto. The popular form has been smoothed twice over: every one has become everyone you meet, and the earliest circulating version of the motto is not kind at all but pitiful, in the older sense of full of pity. Nothing in the record puts any form of it before the 1890s.
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No relationship is easy. Everyone has low days and they can be difficult. What matters is if they understand what hurt you, they make room for your point with an open mind, they don't go cold, they try to fix the issue.
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Some people are meant to be part of one chapter of your story and some stay longer. Everyone has a role to play. There's a reason they meet you. Enjoy every season while it lasts. Don't force connection. Don't regret anything. Every presence is meaningful if you look back later.
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One good turn deserves another.