Lessen Quotes
99 quotes by 92 authors
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If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your…
— Ellen G. White
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Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good,…
— John Adams
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One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized then, with an…
— Roland Barthes
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Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from…
— Alexandre Dumas
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And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said…
— Lewis Carroll
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Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...
— Louisa May Alcott
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
— Jane Austen
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There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't…
— Nicole Krauss
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We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.
— James Patterson
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You can run,†Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run…
— Nalini Singh
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Love is one of the most intense feelings felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will…
— John Green
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the…
— Jane Austen
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Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
— Kristin Cashore
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A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when…
— Jill Lepore
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