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Suffering Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
- Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow…
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- Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart. — Johann Arndt
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila