“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”
“Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.”
“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.”
“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.”
“Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.”