Suffer Quotes
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot
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If yuh don't know God yuh going suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
Bob Marley
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You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
Esperanza Spalding
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The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
Winifred Holtby
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian
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Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.
Nichiren
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Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.
Eugene Linden
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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
John Calvin
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
Anna Funder
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Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
Stephen Rea
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I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.
Edgar Wallace
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Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer.
Edwin Hodge
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
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A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.
Billy Cannon
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Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
George Robinson
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
Soren Kierkegaard
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That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
Phaedrus
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Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.
Barbara Holland