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Letter "S" » subdues
«Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Appetite
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appetites, conquered, dears, Human nature, subdue, subdues
«Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness»
Author: Indian Proverb
| About:
Goodness,
Wisdom
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gentleness, subdue, subdues, truthfulness, untruthful, vanquish, vanquishes
«For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.»
«He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below»
Author: Lord Byron
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subdues
«He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below»
Author: Lord Byron
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ascends, Down from the Mountain, mountain peak, peaks, subdues, tops, top down
«It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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burden, desolation, past life, past times, sad, storm, subdued, subdues, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, swept, vanity
«Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Wisdom
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aright, equally, fleeing, flees, fortitude, in public, meeting, parts, private parts, subdues, subduing, temperance
«No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
discipline, evil, Human heart, may not, powerful, propensities, propensity, subdued, subdues
«O Nanak, he is a brave warrior, who conquers and subdues his vicious inner ego.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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subdues
«He subdues their rising passion and soothes their anger by soft remonstrance.»
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