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Quotes About Diminish

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Scientists get annoyed at the hackneyed notion that their pursuit of knowledge diminishes the mystery or art or "holiness" of life.
~ Natalie Angier
Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.
~ Ezekiel 29:15
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
~ Hosea 8:10