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• It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for preserving to them, in all their purity, the blessings of self-government, which we had assisted too in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Eye, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.276, Hackett Publishing

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• Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

  Studs Terkel

  Believe, Envy, People

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

  Mason Cooley

  Parent, Sorrow, Wanted

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• Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

  Natalie Portman

  Passion, Want, Facts

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drama, Cities, Fantasy

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• Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

  Clive Barker

  Ambitious, Sooner Or Later

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• Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Art, Art Is, Turns

  "Artist Carrie Mae Weems on 30 Years of Genius [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kristin Braswell, www.ebony.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

  Mario Cuomo

  Sports, Drug, World

  Commencement Address at Iona College on June 03, 1984. "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Block, Compassion, Illumination

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• He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.

  CJ Roberts

  Dark, Light, Mentor

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• The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Kids, Want, Bathroom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat.
  There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Patience, Mind, Patient

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• ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wise, Age, Employment

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• Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

  Robert Payne

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it and apt to spend more of my waking and some of my sleeping hours thinking about it, or just feeling about it. It is my escape.

  Mark Heard

  Sleep, Thinking, Common Sense

  "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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• It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

  Mehmet Oz

  Ocean, Water, Meditation

  "Look Who’s Meditating Now" By Irina Aleksander, www.nytimes.com. March 18, 2011.

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• The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.125, 谷月社

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• The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Men, Faults

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• With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

  George Crabbe

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

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• Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Art, Book, Breathing

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• He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

  Heber J. Grant

  Men, Names, Heaven

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• Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Atheist, Pain, Betrayal

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• The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Ocean, Hawaii, Mysterious

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1972). “Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress”

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