Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams an intensity of expectation that in the end diminishes the reality.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Courage enlarges cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.