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"Do not consider painful what is good for you." »Euripides
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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." »Roger Bannister
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"How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception." »Alfred De Musset
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"It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born." »Ulysses
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." »Maurice Masterlinck
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"The most painful state of living is remembering the future." »Soren Kierkegaard
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"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." »C.S. Lewis
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"Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results." »Jerry Flint
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"I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." »George Eliot, Middlemarch
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"Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty." »Oscar Wilde
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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." »Albert Einstein
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"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." »Annie Sullivan
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"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it." »Bill Cosby
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"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it." »La Rochefoucauld
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"My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential." »Real Live Preacher
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"Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host." »Steve G. Steinberg
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"It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts." »Patrick Henry
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"As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency." »Bharavi
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience." »Denis Watley
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"It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel." »juan gomez
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." »Anais Nin
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"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer." »Von Humboldt
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"I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves." »Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
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"Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee." »Buddha, The Dharmapada
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