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Letter "P" » pains
«A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.»
«God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
God
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conscience, deaf, deaf to, megaphone, pains, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, rouse, rouses, rousing, shouts, shout out, speaks, The Whisper, whispers
«Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains»
«Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.»
Author: Yves Saint Laurent
| Keywords:
pains, pathetic, physically, rendered, victimized, victimizing
«Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?»
«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.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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accord, attach, attach to, cultivate, inclination, pains, prompt, prompting, prompts, spontaneous
«I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
boring, curiously, pains, Somebody else, sympathize, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathize with, sympathizing
«If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bereavement, exception, integral, integral part, pains, pairs, purgatorial, separation, sufferings, suspecting, The Dead, universal
«'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.»
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