#soothe

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. ↗

— Steve Ross

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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. ↗

— Maria Callas

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Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful. ↗

— Timothy Findley

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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ↗

— Anne Frank

#carry #conscience #hard #hard words #heart