We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps,
What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps. [ Longfellow ]

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield. [ Lady Dacre ]

Verily, there is nothing so true that the damps of error hath not warp'd it. [ Tupper ]

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. [ Hazlitt ]