Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.
Piety softens all that courage bears.
The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.
Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows.
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
Acquaintance softens prejudice.
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.
Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.
The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.
