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Tag Name "Soothe" (72)

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
Mark Twain
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It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.
Donald Antrim
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But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.
Maud Newton
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Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.
Myriam Gurba
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
Edward Abbey
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Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
George Crabbe
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
Pierre Corneille
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If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.
Gladys Knight
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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
Robert Jordan
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I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Mine be a cot beside the hill A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.
Samuel Rogers
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
Henry Fielding
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I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.
Steven Morrissey
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but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
Jack Kerouac
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You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?
Abbi Glines
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I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
Jewel
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A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
Anna Laetitia Waring
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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Josh Billings
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
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