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Tag Tag Kindness
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions · 1954

Quotes

“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1771-1790 · Primary source

“I think it’s the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn’t care if the other is alive or dead, then it’s just no good.”

Ian Fleming · For Your Eyes Only, 1960 · Primary source

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

Amelia Earhart · No reliable source

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