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Acquaintance lessens fame. -- Claudius
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. -- Robert South
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. -- Clare Boothe Luce
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. -- Ovid
I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people. -- Amos Lee
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. -- Samuel Richardson
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. -- Ezra Taft Benson
But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen. -- Lawrence Taylor
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. -- Audre Lorde
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. -- Rose Kennedy
I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well. -- Christian Bale
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. -- Lena Dunham
Hope of gain lessens pain. -- Benjamin Franklin
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds. -- Mason Cooley
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living. -- George Herbert
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. -- Jean Paul
Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural. -- Edward Westermarck
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. -- Thomas Eakins
time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ... -- Aphra Behn
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living -- Oliver Goldsmith
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. -- Jonathan Swift
If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting. -- Joan Chen
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience. -- Amy Plum
A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection. -- Toba Beta
Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them. -- John Patrick Hickey
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. -- Lord Chesterfield
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination. -- J. C. Ryle
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. -- Lesley Hazleton
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile. -- Miroslav Volf
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. -- Laurence Sterne
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air. -- Sivananda Radha Saraswati
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. -- Joseph Addison
It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming. -- Nicholas Sparks
Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil? -- Oliver Goldsmith

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