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“Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.”

Littles Pleasure Liberty Ought Comfort Competition Stakes Rejected Reluctance

Author:George Mason

“"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."”

Long Has Beens Said Character Interesting Pieces Ought Comfort This Day Looking Back Interesting Characters

Book:Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”

“The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.”

Broken Ought Comfort Labor Longing Simplicity Prosperity Contentment Labor Of Love

Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”

Ifs Giving Should Believe Littles Common Ought Comfort Safe Standards Charity Income Luxury Generosity Settling Etc Spares Amusement Charitable Expenditures Hamper Charity And Generosity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.”

Men Kind Soul Use Feelings Beautiful Used Kindness Produce Ought Comfort Quiet Shame Uplifting Abundance Sour Unkind Kind Words Morose Beautiful Images

Author:Blaise Pascal