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How to use the word Gently in a Sentence? Page #3

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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

– Walt Whitman

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

– Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

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You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

– Phil Crosby

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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

– Freya Stark

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A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow.

– Unknown

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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

– Tennessee Williams

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I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

– Tony Blair

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Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

– Henry S. Haskins

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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

– Chinese Proverb

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