"Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity."

-- Saint Francis de Sales

#Hypocrite Quotes #Gentleness Quotes

“So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.”
“The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.”
“You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.”
“Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.”
“Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has The Truth. To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.”
“The end of pain we take as happiness.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text
“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

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