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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. ↗

— Donal Henahan

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ↗

— George Orwell

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

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Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

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A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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