Hardens Quotes

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou
He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens! — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that… — Anne Nicol Gaylor
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity… — A. S. Byatt
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch… — Gautama Buddha
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's… — Walter F. Mondale
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out… — John Owen
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J I Packer
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination. — J C Ryle
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J C Ryle
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. — Antoine Rivarol
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! — Robert Burns
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. — Nicolas Chamfort
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften. — Charles Spurgeon

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