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Console Quotes

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

The classics can console. But not enough.

Derek Walcott, William Baer (1996). “Conversations with Derek Walcott”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.273, ReadHowYouWant.com

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.446