Melting Point Increases

Famous quotes containing the words melting, point and/or increases:

    He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
    Open as day for melting charity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James (1843–1916)

    According to true military art, one should never push one’s enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)