Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Or thus, great alms-giving lessens no man's living. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The criterion of true beauty is that
It increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. [ Greville ]

Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's. [ Jean Paul ]

The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases. [ Schiller ]

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. [ Swift ]

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. [ Goldsmith ]

Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire. [ La Roche ]

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. [ Chesterfield ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]

Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]