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Consolation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.— BACON — Of Adversity.

All are not taken! there are left behind Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring, And make the daylight still a happy thing, And tender voices, to make soft the wind.— E. B. BROWNING — Consolation.

The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto VIII. St. 3.

God has commanded time to console the afflicted.— JOSEPH JOUBERT — Thoughts. Ch. V.

Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.— KEBLE — The Christian Year. The First Sunday in Advent. St. 8.

And empty heads console with empty sound.— POPE — The Dunciad. Bk. IV. L. 542.

For grief is crowned with consolation;— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 173.

I will be gone: That pitiful rumour may report my flight, To consolate thine ear.— Shakespeare — S. All's Well That Ends Well. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 129.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Sonnets. Recovery.