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The blunt exposure of a slide to disappointment and pain is tempered by the kindredness the listener him - or herself may have had to the condition at one time or another, the setting sun a metaphor for an approaching wisdom dipped in regret.
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Perhaps the soul hardly realizes the kindredness of its resolve with the loftiest that this world has seen.
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It is not a groundless fancy when the mind discovers moral ideas symbolically suggested even in plants; we feel at once the kindredness of impression upon the sensibilities that is made by a delicate rose and by modest virginity, by a violet and by childlike humility, by an oak and by firmness of character.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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Thus it is, say the sages, that the harvest of kindness - of kindredness - is winnowed down to a precious few grains.
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So maybe I can feel the reality of the kindredness of the down and out more than someone who has never been so low.
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Miguel feels a kindredness to Dexter, and he’s very morally upstanding.
Q&A: Dexter’s Jimmy Smits: Kate Ahlborn Ahlborn, Kate 2008
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