"How strangely do we diminish a thing as……" — Maurice Maeterlinck

More Diminish Quotes

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• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. — Bernard Berenson
• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to… — Fanny Burney
• If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the… — William J. Clinton
• Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens. — Daisaku Ikeda
• Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish. — John C. Maxwell
• These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your… — Neil L. Andersen
• Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred… — Herbert Spencer
• Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain
• Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm — Sun Tzu
• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to… — Maya Angelou
• One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left… — Sigmund Freud
• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he… — William E. Gladstone

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