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• As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

  Linda Sunshine

  Moving, Opportunity, Men

  Linda Sunshine (1989). “Women Who Date Too Much”, Plume

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• In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Voice, Mourning, Sorrow

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• Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Firsts, Bears, Steps

  Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”

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• My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, People, Joy

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

  Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

  Sympathy, Encouragement, Prayer

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• We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.

  Laura Bohannan

  Death, Waste, Unnecessary

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• Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.

  Edmund White

  Father, Book, Israel

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Giving Up, Force, My Own

  Sue Monk Kidd (2014). “The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)”, p.225, Penguin

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• Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Dream, Mean, People

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.316, Faber & Faber

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• We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.

  Elmer Davis

  Running, Dog, Men

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• It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Dream, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, People, Idlers

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• He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

  Herman Melville

  Courage, Heart, Despair

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.132

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• You know that the nucleus of a time is not
  The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
  Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
  As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
  Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
  He shares the confusions of intelligence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Confusion, Poetry, Effort

  Wallace Stevens (1964). “the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”

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• Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Unhappy, Satisfaction

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• There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

  Samuel Richardson

  Taken, Light, Optimism

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.1863, Simon and Schuster

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• Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Attitude

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• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Drinking, Adversity

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• Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

  Donald Wuerl

  Children, People, Joy

  "CBB Interview with Cardinal Donald Wuerl". Interview with Pete Socks, www.patheos.com. April 13, 2014.

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• My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Letting Go, Brother, Suffering

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• The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

  Beilby Porteus

  Exercise, Blessing, Joy

  Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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• [Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.

  Arthur Caplan

  Running, Different, Cloning

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• ... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Sorrow, Tears, Valleys

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• The future: A consolation for those who have no other.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Future

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.73

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