Consolation Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The future: A consolation for those who have no other.”

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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

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A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

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People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few…

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A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

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Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

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There is no cosmetic like happiness

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Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

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There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

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Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows,…

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Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

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Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

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Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

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The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

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Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

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I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

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