Playing on a Word: Tender

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
-Romeo in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
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“…the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance.”
-1st Nephi 1:20 (in the Book of Mormon)
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“Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object.”
-Henry David Thoreau “Walden”
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“Try a little tenderness.”
-Otis Redding
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Tender