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Comfort Quotes - Page 34

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.66

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Samuel Johnson (1805). “A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar”, p.692

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Robin Hobb (2014). “The Tawny Man Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate”, p.1574, Del Rey

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.251

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

"The guitarist picked the right career" by John Burger, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 144, 1856.

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics