Quotes about lessen, page 2
Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto I
THE ARGUMENT
The Knight and Squire resolve, at once,
The one the other to renounce.
They both approach the Lady's Bower;
The Squire t'inform, the Knight to woo her.
She treats them with a Masquerade,
By Furies and Hobgoblins made;
From which the Squire conveys the Knight,
And steals him from himself, by Night.
'Tis true, no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' his bow,
And burns for love and money too;
For then he's brave and resolute,
Disdains to render in his suit,
Has all his flames and raptures double,
And hangs or drowns with half the trouble,
While those who sillily pursue,
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poem by Samuel Butler
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Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto II
THE ARGUMENT
The Saints engage in fierce Contests
About their Carnal interests;
To share their sacrilegious Preys,
According to their Rates of Grace;
Their various Frenzies to reform,
When Cromwel left them in a Storm
Till, in th' Effigy of Rumps, the Rabble
Burns all their Grandees of the Cabal.
THE learned write, an insect breeze
Is but a mungrel prince of bees,
That falls before a storm on cows,
And stings the founders of his house;
From whose corrupted flesh that breed
Of vermin did at first proceed.
So e're the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant Capricious sects,
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poem by Samuel Butler
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Benvolio: Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
classic line from Romeo and Juliet, act 1, scene II, script by William Shakespeare (1597)
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A wise man carries not severity to excess, nor suffers such relaxation as will lessen his own dignity.
Saadi in Gulistan (The Rose Garden) (1258), translated by Francis Gladwin
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To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry in journal entry
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Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
quote by Helen Hunt Jackson
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
quote by Joseph Priestley
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Corruption
Corruption is bad
That is why many are sad
We need to stop it
Or even lessen it a bit
So that many may be glad.
poem by Tine Vale
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