Quotes with diminished

  • Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
  • The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

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  • Lois McMaster Bujold An honor is not diminished for being shared.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Anthony Trollope As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Ben Gibbard Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Bailey It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life...
    Tinselworm
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
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  • Bernard Gilpin Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Aldous Huxley The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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