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Quote:A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne]

Quote:The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.[Stephen King]

Quote:The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. [Dag Hammarskjold]

Quote:An honor is not diminished for being shared. [Lois McMaster Bujold]



Definitions of: diminish

Definition: To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Definition: To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

Definition: To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

Definition: To take away; to subtract.

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