Comfort Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.” quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Download Open image

“Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.”

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my…

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I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

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Easy writing's curst hard reading.

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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

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I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

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A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

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Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and…

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“When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the…

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Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view…

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