Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
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In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the manners. It gives a delicate turn to the ima...
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
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