Pains Quotes
609 quotes by 455 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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I smoke till I got chest pains
— Lil Wayne
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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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
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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
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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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