Definition of Gently

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Definition of Gently
	Gently In a gentle manner. Related Definitions: Gentle, In, Manner

Gently Quotations

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel Paige

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett

I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
Pope John XXIII

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.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Gently Translations

gently in Dutch is zachtjes, voorzichtig
gently in French is lent
gently in Italian is placido, lungo
gently in Latin is placide
gently in Portuguese is delicadamente
gently in Spanish is suavemente, placido

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