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Tag Name "Abate" (13)

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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
William Shakespeare
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Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.
Herman Melville
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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
John Milton
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
R. A. Torrey
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There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
William Shakespeare
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
Edmund Burke
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What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
Euripides
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
Isaac Watts
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In work consists the true pride of life grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.
Leopold Hartley Grindon
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca the Younger