Abate Quotes

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

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.

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.