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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
madness mood
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood. Edna St. Vincent Millay
madness moments chinks
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. Arundhati Roy
madness sanity remnants
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself. Anthony Trollope
madness glory
Like madness is the glory of life. William Shakespeare
madness composing profession
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. Arthur Honegger
madness distraction
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. Bruce Sterling
madness touch
There is a touch of madness to it. Kristan Bromley
madness method though
Though this be madness, yet there is method
madness masterpiece
You can’t have a masterpiece without madness, Alejandro Jodorowsky
sanity submission
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. George Orwell
sanity frame-of-reference conventional
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. Erich Fromm
sanity
I've had to find my sanity. Evangeline Lilly
sanity sane simulate
He who can simulate sanity will be sane. Ovid
sanity economic poor
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor. John Kenneth Galbraith
sanity reason preserves
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. Mark Twain
sanity affair poetry-is
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. Philip Larkin
sanity taxes questioning
If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity. Rudy Giuliani
sanity
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. Studs Terkel