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consolations
«To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life»
«Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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consolations, duty, gladly, listen, religion, shall, submissively, suspect, talk, talking, talking to, talk to, talk to me
«Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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aid, brandies, brandy, consolations, pressure, sorrows, tobacco
«There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
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bids, consolations, germ, lyric, nucleus, ponder, Society of
«Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: / That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.»
Author: Bible
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consolations
«Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? / Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, / That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? / What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? / Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.»
«Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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bright, consolations, equilibrium, fully, in trouble, moments, respond, The Bible
«For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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affront, affronted, consolations, controlled, obscene