Feeling loves a subdued light. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued.
And neither party loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

The wish, which ages have not yet subdued
In man, to have no master save his mood. [ Byron ]

Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. [ Virgil ]

Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished. [ Bacon ]

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. [ Washington Irving ]

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. [ Washington Irving ]

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. [ Seneca ]

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. [ Colton ]

Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave is the world-subduer, but braver he who has subdued himself. [ J. G. Herder ]

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. [ Emerson ]

Beneath her drooping lashes slept a world of eloquent meaning; passionate but pure, dreamy, subdued, but, oh, how beautiful! [ Mrs. Osgood ]

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues. [ Simms ]

When a man's pride is subdued it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. [ Beecher ]

Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires. [ Montaigne ]