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“My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.”

Men Giving Lying Religious Comfort Dear Good Man Bless Virtuous Last Words God Bless God Bless You

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman

“There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.”

Giving Past Lying Comfort

Book:Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

“Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.”

Should Humans Littles Made Lying Comfort Tired Calm Dear Shoulders Contentment Hollow Gracious

Book:The Poems of Celia Thaxter

Source: The Poems of Celia Thaxter

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”

Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.”

Lying Speak Hurt United Comfort Succeed Errors Heal Hated Telling The Truth Divided Falsehood Multitudes Speak The Truth Stand Alone

Author:Adrian Rogers

“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.”

Pain Lying Comfort Gains Worthy

Book:Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion

Source: Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion

“To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.”

Running Lying Fall Waiting Hurt Comfort Disease Illness Sympathy Those Who Lie

Book:The Judge

Source: The Judge

“So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.”

Matter Jobs Lying Enemy Military Information Comfort Presses Deny Aids

Author:David Hackworth

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”

Long Lying Suffering Pleasure Secret Comfort Chiefs Contentment Alas Trifles Great Ones Cultivating Lease Vex Small Pleasures

Author:Richard Sharp

“This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.”

Feels Humans Lying Comfort Demand Physicians Craving Supplies Sufferers Quacks

Author:Leo Tolstoy