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“To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle”
Albert Einstein
“There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow”
Soren Kierkegaard
“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort”
Compton MacKenzie Sr.
“We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.”
Emile Durkheim
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command;And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.”
William Wordsworth
“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”
Jules Renard
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