Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Kindness
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
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