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Thérèse de Lisieux, fully Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin NULL
I do not well see what more I shall have in Heaven than now, she once said. I shall see the good God, it is true; but as to being with Him, I am wholly with Him already upon earth.
Consolation | Desire | Enough | Love |
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Consolation | Existence | Insignificance | Love | Man | Purpose | Purpose | Sense | Thought | Thought |
I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law.
Consolation | Fortune | Nothing | Public |
I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
Abstract | Blessings | Consolation | Esteem | Government | Regret | Sacrifice | Suicide | Treason | Will | Government | Happiness |
I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
Administration | Consolation | War |
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
Consolation | Desire | Enough | Glory | Love | Mercy | Nothing | Order | Receive | Talking | Will |
Contemplating the universe, the whole system of creation, in this point of light, we shall discover, that all that which is called natural philosophy is properly a divine study— It is the study of God through his works — It is the best study, by which we can arrive at a knowledge of the existence, and the only one by which we can gain a glimpse of his perfection.
Consolation | Cruelty | Little | Tyranny | Cruelty |
Thomas Macaulay, fully Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
The essence of politics is compromise.
Capacity | Consolation | Light | Mystery |
Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them.
Consolation | Esteem | Freedom | Heaven | Price |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
History reports that “the men who can manage men manage the men who manage only things, and the men who manage money manage all.” So the bankers, watching the trends in agriculture, industry, and trade, inviting and directing the flow of capital, putting our money doubly and trebly to work, controlling loans and interest and enterprise, running great risks to make great gains, rise to the top of the economic pyramid.
Consolation | Sin |
The taste of the English in the cultivation of land, and in what is called landscape gardening, is unrivalled. They have studied nature intently, and discover an exquisite sense of her beautiful forms and harmonious combinations. Those charms which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life. They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes.
Affliction | Agony | Consolation | Duty | Error | Friend | Grief | Love | Meditation | Mother | Present | Sadness | Sorrow | Child |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Consolation | Object | Theories | Time |
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
Consolation | Life | Life |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
He was a failure, he repeated. Well, look then, feel then. Flashing her needles, glancing round about her, out of the window, into the room, at James himself, she assured him, beyond a shadow of a doubt, by her laugh, her poise, her competence (as a nurse carrying a light across a dark room assures a fractious child), that it was real; the house was full; the garden blowing. If he put implicit faith in her, nothing should hurt him; however deep he buried himself or climed high, not for a second should he find himself without her. So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.
Comfort | Consolation | Fate | Happy | Ignorance | Man | Trifles | World | Fate |
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Consolation | Future |
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Books | Consolation | People | Troubles | Wise |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Few maxims are true from every point of view.
Consolation | Terror |