| Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery. -- Samuel T. Coleridge |
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Coleridge, Samuel T.Era:
1772 |
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| When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. -- Thomas paine |
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Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. -- Samuel Johnson |
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Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. -- Charles C. Colton |
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Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. -- Francis Thompson |
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Thompson, FrancisEra:
1859 |
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| The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. -- Thomas Jefferson |
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Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. -- Thomas paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. -- Michel De Montaigne |
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Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. -- Alexander Pope |
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Pope, AlexanderEra:
1688 |
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| World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. -- Elizabeth B. Browning |
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Browning, Elizabeth B.Era:
1806 |
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| What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. -- Ovid |
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OvidEra:
-43 |
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| The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. -- Eliza Cook |
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Cook, ElizaEra:
1818 |
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| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. -- Thomas paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us knuckle under it. She will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against her. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. -- Richard Steele |
| Author:
Steele, RichardEra:
1672 |
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| One must act in painting as in life, directly. -- Pablo Picasso |
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Picasso, PabloEra:
1881 |
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| There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. -- Thomas paine |
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Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. -- Matthew Prior |
| Author:
Prior, MatthewEra:
1664 |
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| I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT's All A Miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein |
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Rubinstein, ArthurEra:
1887 |
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| painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. -- Simonides |
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SimonidesEra:
-556 |
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| Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Henry Ward Beecher Stowe |
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Stowe, Harriet Ward BeecherEra:
1811 |
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| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. -- Edmund Burke |
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Burke, EdmundEra:
1729 |
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| Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Most women are not as young as they are painted. -- Max Beerbohm |
| Author:
Beerbohm, MaxEra:
1872 |
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| We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. -- Philip Massinger |
| Author:
Massinger, PhilipEra:
1583 |
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| pain is no evil unless it conquers us. -- George Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, GeorgeEra:
1819 |
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| Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. -- Thomas paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called pain. -- Philip Sidney |
| Author:
Sidney, PhilipEra:
1554 |
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| Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad. -- Sivananda |
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SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. -- Blaise Pascal |
| Author:
Pascal, BlaiseEra:
1623 |
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| As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. -- Koran |
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KoranEra:
651 |
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| Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. -- William Henley |
| Author:
Henley, WilliamEra:
1849 |
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