Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson
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  2. Knowing the truth is not always a kindness. - Rosamund Hodge

  3. The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing. - Swami Vivekananda

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  5. This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness. - Dalai Lama Xiv

More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
  1. It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

  2. I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  3. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  4. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  5. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

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