Pains Quotes

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Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you… — David Hume
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings… — Richard Crashaw
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you… — Samuel Johnson
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please… — Plautus
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as… — George Santayana
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde
Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of… — Leonardo da Vinci
I smoke till I got chest pains — Lil Wayne
Jests that give pains are no jests. — Miguel de Cervantes
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe,… — Robert Southey
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,… — Samuel Johnson
What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing… — Russell Hoban
The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their… — Erwin Rommel

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