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• I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Cancer, Thinking

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• I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Mother, Determination

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Men, Grace

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2655, Delphi Classics

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• For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

  Anne Lamott

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.108, Anchor

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• The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Language, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

  Moliere

  Salvation

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• Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Wall, Grieving, Wind

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• Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Unhappy, Trying, Depth

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• For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Laughter, Book, Inspiration

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• Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

  Agnes Repplier

  Guests, Leisure, Delight

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspiration, Intelligent, Men

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• If a warrior needs solace he simply chooses anyone and expresses to that person every detail of his turmoil. After all, the warrior is not seeking to be understood or helped; by talking he's merely relieving himself of his pressure.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Talking, Details

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Riches, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2109, Delphi Classics

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• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  Randeep Hooda

  Dog, Sweet, Home

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• What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religion, Christianity, Conviction

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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• Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

  Joseph Addison

  Graduation, Education, Depressing

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• Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

  Liz Carpenter

  Laughter, Giving, Heal

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• One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from an overdose of drugs. I cried tears – my model had died. After this, an exciting new group, the Radha Krishna Temple, came on and sang the Hare Krishna mantra. I immediately felt deep solace.

  Sacinandana Swami

  Drug, Tears, One Day

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• Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Amusement, Matter

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.221, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

  Ben Katchor

  Spiritual, Religious, Years

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• I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Education, Home, Learning

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• Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Light, Nurse

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.177, Xist Publishing

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• ...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

  Russell Kirk

  Beautiful, Ambition, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

  William James

  Believe, Belief, Pleasure

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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