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Suffering Quotes by Mark Twain
- I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering…
- I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will…
- Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life…
- what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to…
- Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my…
- If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila