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“The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance”

Want Should Ends Failing Comfort Importance Costumes Usefulness Adornment

Book:Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

Source: Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

“For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.”

Has Beens Seems Might Failing Comfort Succeed Scales Paradox Might Have Been Brutes

Author:Robert Browning

“books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.”

Has Beens Book Failing Building Comfort Delight Amusement Castles Profitable

Book:LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

Source: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”

Mind Moving Failing Comfort Letters Burden Circles Senses Decay Royal Columns Royal Family Helpers Obituary Postman Grasshoppers

Book:Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.”

Men Way Humans Hope Enemy Break Greater Failing Comfort Devil Hardest Miserable Human Life Necks Yield Smooth Calamity Beam Presumptuous

Author:Owen Feltham

“No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.”

Men Way States President United Lord United States Taken Failing Special Comfort Office Thee Strongest Trust In God Faith In God Reliance Fear Not Forsake Dismayed

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."”

Fall Results Failing Comfort Expectations Originals Tyranny Resistance Ideology Customs Initiative Unrealistic Expectations

Author:John Daly

“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Soul Self Running Jesus Failing Risk Ignorance Comfort Comfortable Destruction Tragedy Illness My Soul Uncertainty Midst Serving Terrified Complacency Self Serving Comfortable Life

Author:Katie Davis

“A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher”

Would Be Failing Comfort Angel Ministers Preacher

Author:John Newton

“Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.”

Ifs Real Remember Law Forget Liberty Principles Failing Sacrifice Honesty Honor Comfort Willingness Commandments Assured Decency Convenience Readiness Without Sacrifice

Author:Richard L. Evans

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”

Needs May Children Remember Father Hours Failing Sorrow Comfort Mere Knees Sat Rely Father Son One Friend When All Else Fails

Book:File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles

Source: File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles

“Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."”

President Lord Taken Failing Comfort Thee Fear Not Forsake Dismayed

Author:John F. Kennedy

“There's a lot of failing. Failure to me is a lot more important than success because the learning from it is so important. You have to be willing to fail, to step outside of yourself and you can't have a comfort zone. I had to learn that and I'm still learning that.”

Stills Important Steps Failing Willing Comfort Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Jlin