Definition of Console

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Console

To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

Any small bracket; also, a console table.

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Console Quotations

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore De Balzac

Console Translations

console in Afrikaans is troos
console in Dutch is vertroosten, troosten
console in Finnish is lohduttaa
console in French is consolons, consolent, consoler, consolez
console in German is Bedienungsfeld, Bedienungsfeld, Tatstatur
console in Italian is consolare
console in Spanish is consolar

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