#lighten

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ↗

— Satish Kumar

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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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