Joan Osborne 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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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
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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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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
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I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.
