Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?
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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
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Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."
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To perceive is to suffer.
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To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
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Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.
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When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.
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Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
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Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.
