#lessen

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#cares #dividing #doubles #friendship #happy

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#joy #lessened #pain #shared

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

#desires #enlarges #folly #lessens #men

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ↗

— Robert Southey

#each #friendship #lapse #lessen #other

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#life #meals #thy

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#anxiety #been #bit #feel #female

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#average #enables #exploit #his #judgment

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#course #desire #employ #end #everything

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#end #end of the world #enthusiasm #i #lessen

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#carriers #command #difficulty #duty #expedition