The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.
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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort
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This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand.. It says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever.
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From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
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Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
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We find comfort among those who agree with us growth among those who don't.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
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To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
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Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.
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Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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Comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken.
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.. Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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We find comfort among those who agree with usgrowth among those who don't.
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