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Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided. -- John Heywood
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. -- James Madison
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal. -- R. A. Torrey
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate. -- Euripides
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. -- Isaac Watts
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. -- Alan Paton
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. -- Edmund Spenser
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. -- William Shakespeare
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate. -- Michel de Montaigne
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate. -- Herman Melville
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. -- John Milton
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us. -- Cormac McCarthy

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