Comforts Quotes

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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of… — Samuel Johnson
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life… — Henry David Thoreau
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never… — Thomas Jefferson
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being… — Benjamin Franklin
Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're… — Rolf Potts
I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isnt… — Wendie Malick
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th'… — Finley Peter Dunne
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the… — John Flavel
Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people tend to choose… — Francis Chan
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts… — Edward Dahlberg
A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. — Phillip Moffitt
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on… — Muhammad
Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we… — Richard Hanson
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking… — Spencer W. Kimball
It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan… — Herbert Hoover

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