#soothe

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. ↗

— Maria Callas

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Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful. ↗

— Timothy Findley

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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

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