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We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
Abraham Isaac Kook
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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
Voltaire
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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
Roger Scruton
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The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.
Albert Einstein
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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.
Paulo Coelho
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
Norm MacDonald
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
David Nicholls
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To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
Theodor Reik
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Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.
Simone Weil
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The Bahá´à Faith is consolation for humanity.
Bahá'u'lláh
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The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
Elias Canetti
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What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Thomas a Kempis
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The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
Michael J. Fox
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The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.
Shelagh Delaney
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Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
Martin Luther
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg
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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
Wilfrid Sheed
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When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.
Marcel Proust
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If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
Saadi
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli
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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
Ambrose Bierce
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Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
Claude Monet
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The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
Michael Kimmelman
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Publilius Syrus
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One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
Joyce Carol Oates
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The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.
Timothy Keller
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
Luc de Clapiers
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To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.
Publilius Syrus
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Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Julien Green
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
Christopher Hitchens
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The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
Edmund White
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Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Antonio Machado
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[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.
Orhan Pamuk
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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
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
Walter Savage Landor
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This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
Ruth Ozeki