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Thy boist'rous locks, no worthy match For valour to assail, nor by the sword * * * * * * But by the barber's razor best subdued.
john milton— John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 1,167.
My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!) An horrid chasm disclosed.
— John Philips, The Splendid Shilling, line 121.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
washington irving— "Philip of Pokanoket : An Indian Memoir".
— A more extensive statement not found as such in this work is attributed to Irving in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) edited by Roycroft Shop:
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.
ben klassen— Nature's Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2, Paragraph 3
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
— Commonly attributed to Seneca the Younger during the 19th century, but not found in his works.
The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.
margaret atwood— Chapter 14 (p. 79) (The Handmaid’s Tale (1985))
The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.
ted hughes— "Pike", line 13
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Kéramos, st. 29
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vladimir mayakovsky— "At the Top of My Voice" (1929-30); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) pp. 223-5
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.
hannah more— Hannah More, Sensibility.
A sacred spark created by his breath, The immortal mind of man his image bears; A spirit living 'midst the forms of death, Oppressed, but not subdued, by mortal cares.
— Sir H. Davy, Written After Recovery from a Dangerous Illness.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
— Commonly attributed to Seneca the Younger during the 19th century, but not found in his works.
He is unaffected by Karma , although engaged in action, who has yoked himself to the way of Yoga , whose mind is purified, whose self has triumphed and whose senses have been subdued, and whose self has, indeed, become the self of all beings. Although acting he remains unaffected by Karma .
— Krishna; Chapter 5, verse 7; C. Rajagopalachari translation
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme: of one, whose hand Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, Richer than all his tribe: of one, whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.
— Act V, scene 2, line 383. ("Base Indian" is "base Judean" in first folio).
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
washington irving
The dogs had eaten the upholstery of a Packard convertible that afternoon, and were consequently somewhat subdued.
— 1981The Last Laugh,'The Last Laugh'. Israeli statesman. In1994 he shared the Nobel peace prize with YasserArafat andYitzhak Rabin.
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
johann kaspar lavater— Aphorisms on Man, No. 609 (c. 1788)
