Quotes with subduing

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• Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

  David Hume
  Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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• Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• perpetually
• grappling
• temporary
• necessity
• conquered

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