Their cause I plead—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the Just is kind.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XXIV. L. 523
| note = Pope's trans.
Though he was rough, he was kindly.
| author = Longfellow
| work = Courtship of Miles Standish.
Pt. III.
The greater the kindred is, the Iesse the kindnesse must bee.
| author = Lyly
| work = Mother Bombie. Act III. Sc. 1.
| seealso = (See also Hamlet)
| topic = Kindness
| page = 416
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| text = <poem>There's no dearth of kindness
In this world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers.
Gerald Massey—There's no Dearth of Kindness.
Colubram sustulit
Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericore.
He carried and nourished in his breast
a snake, tender-hearted against his own
Piledrus—Fables. Bk. IV. 18.
Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis
beneficiis amicitias parabant.
The Romans assisted their allies and
friends, and acquired friendships by giving
rather than receiving kindness.
Sallust—CatUina. VI.
Ubicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.
Wherever there is a human being there is
an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca—Thyestes. CCXT7.
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 65.
| seealso = (See also Lyly)
When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkerchief about your brows,
The best I had, a princess wrought it me,
And I did never ask it you again;
And with my hand at midnight held your head,
And, like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,
Saying, "What lack you?" and, "Where lies
your grief?"
King John. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 41.
n Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 14.
Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si
off eras.
If what must be given is given willingly the
kindness is doubled.
Syrus—Maxima.
Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what
you intend to deny.
Sybt/b—Maxims.
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Wordsworth—Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey.
- KISSES ##
KISSES
Blush, happy maiden, when you feel
The lips which press love's glowing seal;
But as the slow years darklier roll,
Grown wiser, the experienced soul
Will own as dearer far than they
The lips which kiss the tears away.
Elizabeth Akers Allen—Kisses.
But is there nothing else.
That we may do but only walk? Methinks,
Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = A King and No
King. Act IV. Sc. 4.
Kiss till the cows come home.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Scornful Lady.
Act II. Sc. 2.
Remember the Viper:—'twas close at your feet,
How you started and threw yourself into my
arms;
Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet
As the lips which I kisa'd to subdue your
alarms.
Bloommeld—Nancy. St. 4.
- * * And when my lips meet thine
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.
H. H. Boyesen—Thy Gracious Face I Greet
uiih Glad Surprise.
Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss
close.
E. B. Browning—Drama of Exile. Sc.
Farther on, etc. L. 992.
I was betrothed that day;
I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give
away.
E. B. Browning—Lay of the Brown Rosary.
Pt. II.
First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since it grew more clean and white.
E. B. BROWNiNa—Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Sonnet XXXVIII.
Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet,
A most delicious compound, with ingredients
complete;
But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,
It has no great significance, it loses half its
power.
Mary E. Buhll—The Kiss.
