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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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
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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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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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Great and small suffer the same mishaps.
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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
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What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
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You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.
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What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.
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We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.
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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
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Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.
