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underrates toothaches." | |
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Miles Kindera
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| "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the
overcoming of it." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to
the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power
to revoke at any moment." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "In the country of pain we are each alone." | |
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May Sarton
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| "It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never
inflicts pain." | |
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Cardinal Newman
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| "It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who
never inflicts pain." | |
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John Henry Cardinal Newman
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| "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does
that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and
vindictive." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain
reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable." | |
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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| "Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the
mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already
borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all of you are beyond the
pain." | |
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Cecilia Bartholomew
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| "Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we
are born in others" pain And perish in our own." | |
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Francis Thompson
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| "One fire burns out another"s burning, One pain is lessen"d by
another"s anguish." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Pain addeth zest unto pleasure, And teacheth the luxury of
health." | |
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Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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| "Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each
other." | |
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Laurence Sterne
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| "Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest
agonies have shortest reign." | |
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William Cullen Bryant
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| "Pain is no evil unless it conquers us." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Pain nourishes courage. You can"t be brave if you"ve only had
wonderful things happen to you." | |
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Mary Tyler Moore
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| "Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause
cramp. Guns aren"t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as
well live." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the
delight." | |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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| "The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure
instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you"re in
control of your life. If you don"t, life controls you." | |
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Anthony (Tony) Robbins
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| "There are only three sins ? causing pain, causing fear, causing
anguish. The rest is window dressing." | |
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Roger Caras
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| "Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "We cannot learn without pain." | |
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Aristotle
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| "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the
pain of regret or disappointment." | |
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Jim Rohn
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| "Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is
blessed who ne"er was born." | |
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Matthew Prior
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