Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, …

Samuel Smiles
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Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1910). Character. Repr
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1861). Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct, p.67
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Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1910). Character. Repr

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