Comfort

Comfort is a sense of physical or psychological ease, often characterized as a lack of hardship.

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• It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
  • J. M. Barrie, Little Minister (1891), Chapter 10.

• Is there no balm in Gilead?
  • Jeremiah, VIII, 22. "Is there no treacle in Gilead?" Version from the "Treacle Bible" (1568). Spelled also "truacle" or "tryacle" in the Great Bible (1541), Bishops' Bible (1561).

• And He that doth the ravens feed,
  Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
  Be comfort to my age!
  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 3, line 43.

• That comfort comes too late;
  'Tis like a pardon after execution;
  That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me;
  But now I am past all comforts here, but Prayers.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act IV, scene 2, line 119.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124.

• They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
  • Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Psalm XXXVII.

• Miserable comforters are ye all.
  • Job, XVI, 2.

• From out the throng and stress of lies,
  From out the painful noise of sighs,
  One voice of comfort seems to rise:
  "It is the meaner part that dies."
  • William Morris, Comfort.

• Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  • Psalms, XXIII, 4.