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The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.
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O, marvelous power of the Divine seed, which overpowers the strong man armed, softens obdurate hearts, and changes into divine men those who were brutalized in sin, and removed to an infinite distance from God.


— John Wycliffe, p. 288. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Familiarity breeds contempt or Acquaintance softens prejudices.

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— The Fox and the Lion

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,Expels diseases, softens every pain,Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

john armstrong

— Book IV, line 512.

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In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.

merold westphal

— p. 49 (Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society (1992))

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.


— Book IV, line 512.

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Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health.

thomas jefferson

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Familiarity breeds contempt or Acquaintance softens prejudices.


— The Fox and the Lion (Sourced)

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The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.


— As quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 263.

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Why should we kill the best of passions, love? It aids the hero, bids ambition rise to nobler heights, inspires immortal deeds, even softens brutes, and adds a grace to virtue.

james thomson

— Sophonisba, Act V, scene 2.

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