Lessen Quotes

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The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,… — Samuel Johnson
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit. — Plato
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will… — Robert Goolrick
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control… — Baruch Spinoza
Lessen selfishness and restrain desires. — Laozi
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed… — Birch Bayh
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some… — Robert Kennedy
Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just… — Rajneesh
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding… — Marianne Williamson
Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work.… — John Earle
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it. — Seneca the Younger
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what… — Anne Lamott
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. — Yasmin Mogahed
No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only… — Lysander Spooner
Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It… — David O. McKay

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