#softened

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

— Gemma Arterton

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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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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. ↗

— James Allen

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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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