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  • Kindliness to the unlovable people, the projection of the Spirit of Christ to those who would be unforgiving, all this is foolishness.

    Archive 2009-05-10 Esther 2009

  • Kindliness to the unlovable people, the projection of the Spirit of Christ to those who would be unforgiving, all this is foolishness.

    Foolishness for the Lord Esther 2009

  • Kindliness of feeling is the great test of virtue amongst the good, and this same compassionate and humane feeling is the source of perennial felicity to the virtuous.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • And when men do thus wish good to another (he not * [Sidenote: 1156a] reciprocating the feeling), people call them Kindly; because Friendship they describe as being "Kindliness between persons who reciprocate it."

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Kindliness and sympathy are needed in the high places of our government for the people by the people.

    Opportunities in Engineering

  • Kindliness and loneliness, from what I can tell, have always been his weakness.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

  • Kindliness they knew not, and compassion was a stranger to them.

    The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories 1947

  • Kindliness and wisdom and an ancient childish simplicity lay in its sleeping folds, so that visitors tiptoeing past her bed, and even the nurses who knew her only too well, would pause and say what a picture she looked.

    The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938

  • Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

    Archibald V. Hill - Banquet Speech 1923

  • A dish of the bonbons Good Cheer and Kindliness with every-day mottoes;

    Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

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