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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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"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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"pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are." »John Dryden
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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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"The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away." »James Thomson
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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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"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." »Walter Bagehot
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever" »George Gordon Byron
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"Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time." »Gordie Howe
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"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive." »James Baldwin
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"I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you" »Ty Howard
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"Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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