Consolation Quotes
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The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
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To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
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And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.
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We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.
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When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
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He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.
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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
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It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.
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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
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It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
