68. KINDNESS & COURTESY  --page 570--

         Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted (Eph.4:32).

         1. It's not the things that can be bought
         That are life's richest treasure.
         It's just the little gifts of heart
         That money cannot measure.
         2. The kindly word that's sown today may bear its fruit tomorrow.
         3. Only the best behaviour is good enough for daily use in the home.
         4. There's a time to wink as well as to see.
         5. One way to learn manners is from those who have none.
         6. What is readily yielded to courtesy is seldom yielded to force.
         7. Little deeds of kindness, little words of love
         Help to make Earth happy, like the Heaven above.
         8. Art thou lonely, O my brother?
         Share thy little with another!
         Stretch a hand to one unfriended,
         And thy loneliness is ended.
         9. Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
         10. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
         11. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, & he who plants kindness, gathers love.
         12. One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned.
         13. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak & the deaf understand.
         14. Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
         15. The only ones you should try to get even with are the ones who have helped you.
         16. Treat your friends with care, as if you know that he will one day become your enemy.
         17. Even power itself hath not one-half the might of Gentleness.
         18. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
         19. Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
         20. Did you waste the day, or lose it?
         Was it well or poorly spent?
         Did you leave a trail of kindness
         Or a scar of discontent?
         21. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
         22. If you don't believe in carefully choosing your words, think of the difference between, "You look like the breath of spring" & "You look like the end of a hard winter".
         23. I went to find a friend.
         But couldn't find one anywhere.
         I went to be a friend,
         And friends were everywhere!
         24. Courtesy costs nothing, yet it buys things that are priceless.
         25. What is compassion?--It is loving to the point of really helping. To be compassionate means to really care & be truly concerned, not just say "I love you" & then walk off & forget it.

         (See also No. 50A, 962, 974, 997, 1549.)

         (See Verses on Love.)


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