Lightened Quotes
33 quotes by 30 authors
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another…
— O. Henry
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
— William Wordsworth
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Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its…
— Raoul Dufy
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As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.
— Linda S. Reeves
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting…
— Coleman Dowell
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies.…
— Lewis Hyde
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When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that…
— Julia Ward Howe
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If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!
— James Van Praagh
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We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on…
— J.R. Miller
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I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.
— Kirsten Dunst
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In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
— Pierre Corneille
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However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height…
— Jules Verne
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
— Indira Gandhi
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
— John Stuart Mill
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I…
— Anne Rice
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ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide…
— Richelle Mead
Who Wrote These Lightened Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 33 Lightened Quotes, led by these top contributors: