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• A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

  John Sterling

  Believe, School, Men

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.151

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• Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

  Agatha Christie

  Courage, Brave, Certain

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Life Is, Failing, Offers

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “All Over Creation”, p.346, Canongate Books

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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.

  Epictetus

  Grief, Animal, Men

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Communication, Suffering, Etc

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

  Vera Nazarian

  Eye, Evil, Apathy

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Recovery, Age, Lucky

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.7, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Men, Numbers, Would Be

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• Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Passion, Heart

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• How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Men, Roles

  Thornton Wilder (1987). “The ides of March”, HarperCollins

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• The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

  Hannah More

  Ubiquity, Support, Nerves

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.9

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• Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

  Marco Roth

  Religious, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Occupation

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 1

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• For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Wise, Strong

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• Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

  Charles Buck

  Awful, Eternity, Consideration

  Charles Buck (1831). “Anecdotes, religious, moral, and entertaining”, p.44

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• In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

  Roger Scruton

  Sex, People, Desire

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”, p.106, Encounter Books

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• Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Color, Cadavers, Weight

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.59, Macmillan

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• If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

  Simon Blackburn

  Karma, Destiny, Best Effort

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Strong, People

  Octavius Winslow (1858). “Midnight harmonies, or, Thoughts for the season of solitude & sorrow”, p.32

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• By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food as the dollar value we attribute to your income would buy in the United States. But then you can buy much more by way of services than you could buy with this PPP equivalent in the United States." But what consolation is this? The poor do not buy services - they are services, on their luckier days.

  Thomas Pogge

  United States, Dollars, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think that allows you to reach for the best part of your reader instead of a lot of the internet stuff, in which you're kind of reaching for the worst or the most shallow part of your reader.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Years, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it.

  Meryl Streep

  Dream, Art, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Sun, Rays, Holiness

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8

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• You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.

  John Derbyshire

  Spiritual, Kings, Thinking

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• Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Earth, Slave

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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