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• The incompleteness which is due to our earthly condition is nothing as compared with the incompleteness which is due to our own sin But this incompleteness is one which may be progressively diminished, and we may be tending moment by moment, and year by year, nearer and nearer, and ever nearer, to the unreachable ideal of the entire possession of, and being possessed by, our God. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• But his forces, instead of increasing, diminished, and no popular enthusiasm supported the courage of his troops. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• The number of supposed witches immediately diminished, and the violence of the mania began to subside. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• Their numbers were so diminished, and their departure so hasty, that they all embarked in one frail canoe. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• When Jews conform to the mores of the people amongst whom they live prejudice and hatred are greatly diminished, and in time will probably disappear. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals

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