The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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You'll know your limits until you try to extend them and even then, one has to break out of his/her comfort zone to appreciate that effort.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling 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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Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them
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Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt
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Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
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Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.
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It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.
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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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When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. Are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
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) Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
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My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow
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My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
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Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.
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As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence
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