The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.


Roger Scruton

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There is no consolation,
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A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
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If it's any consolation to you, I'm petrified.
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Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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There was some consolation for them in that the person responsible was still on scene when police ar...
ANDY BURGESS
[Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
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Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation
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Your visit, however brief, would be a consolation and encouragement.
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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
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To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
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Aaron had a tough match, but he came back in the consolation rounds.
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It's not a bad consolation prize for not being in the Grey Cup,
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But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
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Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
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Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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I don't understand this jury. But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are still go...
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I don't understand this jury, ... But I have one consolation: (Nichols and Timothy McVeigh) are stil...
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This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the ...
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What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer...
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap...
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Food is the consolation prize. So many times, it's not even close to what you really want.
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Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
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A lot of her points were later in the game, so I have to take some consolation in that.
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With all the team problems we had the bronze medal for the women was a superb consolation.
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Humility is not an imaginary thing.
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Knowing that they think that much of me makes it extra special. It's kind of a consolation prize for...
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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What are we doing (getting) a consolation prize for saying we blocked better than the other guys? Yi...
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I ran like a champion. It is a great consolation to show how dominant I am. I am the Olympic champio...
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of...
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I...
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In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every wor...
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the so...
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the...
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Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link...
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
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It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their pro...
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kept on talking and talking, you couldn't contain him, an avalanche of friendly phrases and jokes. I...
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Both Allison and Kate came on strong in consolation matches after playing tough first-round matches.
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Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
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Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we d...
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With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch...
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All's fair in love and war.
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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
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We get pretty geared up for this. We say every year that we don't play in consolation games.
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I think there was some consolation there after seeing how many teams they had blown out this season.
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That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon...
ROGER MCGUINN
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
ROGER MILLER
The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
ROGER STONE
The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
ROGER EBERT
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes ...
ROGER MAHONY
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
ROGER MOORE
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT
In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.
ROGER STAUBACH
Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE
Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
ROGER AILES
Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS
The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE
The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT
If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
ROGER ZELAZNY
It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the bi...
ROGER BART
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT
In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
ROGER AILES
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
ROGER MAHONY
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have b...
ROGER MOORE
I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE
Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
ROGER EBERT
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
ROGER CRAWFORD
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...
ROGER ZELAZNY
Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-i...
ROGER STONE
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
ROGER EBERT