Quotes with soften

  • The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

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  • Joseph Addison Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Lord George Byron As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Babe Paley In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • William Congreve Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Carl Rogers One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Henry Giles People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Madame de Maintenon The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bill Cosby Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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