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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary." »C. C. Colton
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it." »Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
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"You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid." »Samuel Johnson
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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are." »John Dryden
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"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves." »Confucius
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"Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away." »James Thomson
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"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other." »Swami Brahnmananda
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"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." »Walter Bagehot
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"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul" »John Keats
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"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness." »Thomas Fuller
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"A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." »George Bernard Shaw
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains." »G. K. Chesterton
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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." »Samuel Johnson
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"... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down." »Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved , pg. 336
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"No man loves life like him that's growing old." »Sophocles
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"Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance" »Unknown
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"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing." »Gail Sheehy
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"Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me?s enough. Behold this world?s delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me?s enough." »Hafiz
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"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less." »Norman Mailer
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"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." »Irish Proverb
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"He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision." »Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
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