“ Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. ”
- John Brown- Copy
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“ We in Holland know the word means a mild death, a dignified death. And therefore we use it. ”
- Pieter V. Admiraal- Copy
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“ Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing. ”
- Aquaviva- Copy
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“ Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ People think of the Golden Rule as something mild and innocuous, like a baby lamb. But when they suffer an infringement of it, they think they've been mauled by a panther. ”
- Francis Wren- Copy
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“ Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment. ”
- Lord Newborough- Copy
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“ One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
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“ A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. ”
- Mao Zedong- Copy
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“ Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was this motive, so unfrocked with anything that his worst enemies could find, except the mildest and most excusable, a personal vanity, practically the minimum to be human, that in a sense his adventure is that of humanity itself… ”
- William Bolitho- Copy
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“ When the weather is mild, they stand leaning with both their arms upon the corn-field fence, and gravely consider whether they had best go and take a Small Heat at the Hough: but generally find reasons to put it off till another time. ”
- William Byrd- Copy
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“ When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes. ”
- Ann Coulter- Copy
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“ They actually came to me over a year ago, and I was having an ever-so-mild nervous breakdown at that point, and felt I needed to just stop. So I went, I can't look at anything right now, I need to stop. I wasn't really having a nervous breakdown, I'd just done too much stuff back to back… ”
- Guy Pearce- Copy
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“ Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet… we may rightly call a New World… a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us. ”
- Amerigo Vespucci- Copy
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“ There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, "Garcon! Un Pernod!". ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend. ”
- John Armstrong- Copy
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“ Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ”
- Margaret Halsey- Copy
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