When this is in return for a rude thing said by another, it brings him to his senses, it mortifies and corrects him in the most salutary way, and places him at the feet of your good nature, in the eyes of the company.
But it mortifies me that you have not added one to the stock of common acquaintance.
He has a wart on the upper part of his right cheek--a mark which disfigures him and mortifies him exceedingly.
I will read his description from the letter: He has a wart on the upper part of his right cheek--a mark which disfigures and mortifies him exceedingly.
No mass here, no vigil, no hallucinations of a fictitious service of God; it is the true service of God, which subdues the body and mortifies the flesh.
He who keeps his body under and mortifies its lusts does not live to the world; he does not lead the life of the world.
It condemns, mortifies and opposes whatever, in man's judgment, is good and well-pleasing.
That does not offer up the body with its lusts, but rather fosters the evil desires of the flesh; this sacrifices the body and mortifies its lusts.
You are very good in your enquiries after my little boy who is in perfect health, but has got no teeth yet, which somewhat mortifies his two Mamas.
In short, he mortifies and crucifies the flesh, in order that the spirit may live.
No sackcloth so mortifies the body as this life of perpetual self-abnegation mortifies the will.
The truth, however, is that one who mortifies one's own body is not to be regarded either as an ascetic or as one conversant with duty[415].
By Upavasa in the second line is meant abstention from food between the two prescribed hours for eating, and not that fast which mortifies the body.
Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothingmortifies us more than their vice or infamy.
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