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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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“Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music”
Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)
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“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

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“My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
Robert Southey quotes (English Poet and Writer of prose. 1774-1843)
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“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.”
Joseph Priestley quotes (English Chemist and Clergyman, 1733-1804)

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“But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.”
James Russell Lowell quotes (American Poet, Critic, Essayist, Editor and Diplomat, 1819-1891)

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“Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand.”
marthe Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson quotes
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lessen synonyms: decrease, decreases, diminish, diminishes, subside.

lessen antonyms: increase, increases.

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