sustains

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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and-since there is no other metaphor-also the soul. Christopher Hitchens

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. Cesare Pavese

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed. E. B. White

Hope sustains the farmer. Latin Proverb

Fever sustains the sick. Sicilian Proverb

"He who transplanted still sustains." (motto of Connecticut referring to the transplantation of settlers from England to the New World.) Latin Proverb