Pains Quotes
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
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I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.
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One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
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Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
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It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
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It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; we must be one great family of equals. The spiritual welfare of those on relief must receive especial care and be earnestly and prayerfully fostered. A system which gives relief for work or service will go far to reaching these ends.
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
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Netflix is a pro-SJW business, so it pains me to give them $8 a month.
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The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
