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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

– Henri Nouwen

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But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.

– John Owen

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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

– Marie Louise De La Ramee

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

– Peter Ustinov

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

– John Sheffield

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Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

– Andrew Schneider

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    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
    A sheath
    B contempt
    C abandon
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