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• Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.

  Rose of Viterbo

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Law, Forgiving

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.53, Graphic Arts Books

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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.

  Plutarch

  Usual, Envious, Inferiors

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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• Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Reading, Instruction, Corrections

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• Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

  Voltaire

  Mean, Letters, Mail

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• Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

  Julien Green

  Tyrants, Oppressed, Superiors

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• I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him for Whose service they were undertaken and remembering that Our Lord would be praised and the most Holy Sacrament would dwell in the house I was going to found... It should be a great consolation to us - though many of us do not think of it - that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, dwells as He does in so many places in the most Holy Sacrament

  Teresa of Avila

  Jesus, Journey, Men

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• The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Soul, Sorrow

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• Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Helping Others, Men

  "Selected Works".

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• I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence.
  We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.

  Felix Adler

  Inspiration, Believe, Men

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Hope, Laughter

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• The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Father, Light

  Brother Lawrence (of the Resurrection), Joseph de Beaufort (1874). “Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence).”, p.62, New York ; Chicago ; Toronto : F.H. Revell

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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Design, Poverty

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• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Genius, Mediocrity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.153

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• To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

  George Santayana

  Elude, Classic, Psychological

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.533, Indiana University Press

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• It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

  'Beasts and Super-Beasts' (1914) 'The Byzantine Omelette'

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• Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Advice

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

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• Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Mean, Joy

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• The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Order, Doe

  "The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent".

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• He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Divine Wisdom, Soul

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• The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Winter, Clouds

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.429, Vintage

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• There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

  Richard Armour

  Dream, Facts, Nightmare

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