It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
- Topic: Kindness
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More Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.