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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
truth-is sells
Truth is the easiest thing to sell. Daymond John
truth-is habit break
The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one. Denis Waitley
truth-is
Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped. Edward Snowden
truth-is weak
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself. Bertolt Brecht
truth-is heard
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard. Baltasar Gracian
truth-is
I am nothing, truth is everything. Abraham Lincoln
truth-is good-things bad-things
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either. Daniel Gilbert
truth-is wells sincerely
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. Clarice Lispector
truth-is propaganda
The truth is the best propaganda. Adolf Hitler
empty-life people littles
I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives. David Sedaris
empty happening opportunity perception
The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here. Larry Alexander
empty tricks needed
Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty. Deb Caletti
empty experience fleeing hurricane invincible lane looking opposite order people seeing spill toward toxic
There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that. Lester Holt
empty readings stored various
With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. Charles Churchill
empty life plenty question slightest
In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested. Ricardo Semler
empty talk
Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done. Betty Williams
empty fast patient writer
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process. Ann Voskamp
empty-life killers bitter
Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business. Brent Weeks