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"The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."
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"I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you."
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"Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!"
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Personal Development
"With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way."
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Personal Development
"Books were safer than other people anyway."
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Personal Development
"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."
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Personal Development
"But with Dimitri, I never felt like I had to be anything more what I already was. I didn't have to entertain him or think up jokes or even flirt. It was enough to just be together, to be completely comfortable in each other's presence.."
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"There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares."
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Personal Development
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
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Personal Development
"Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own."
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"There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by."
Life
"Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em."
Woman
"A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away."
Present
"However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words."
Nature
"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly."
Time
"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
Emotional
"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
Sympathy
"People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves."
Love
"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights."
Death
"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
Death
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