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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.
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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
cruelty england fair medieval
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
cruelty exercise holiday mental perfect
To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday. Georgia Witkin
cruelty english-novelist nature
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
cruelty effects ill
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel
cruelty feeling fragile law limited medium mere reason standing tyranny
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter
cruelty ethnic evolved found genes likely mean multiple survival variations
If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.
cruelty degree horrors imagine inflict leave pull reader terrible truly uncovered war
I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst
cruelty dialogue difference education fight hit others peace
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai
cruelty deliberate incredibly
The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. Alan Watts
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If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow. Al Pacino
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If you intend to die, you can do anything. Chip Kidd
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If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while. China Chow
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It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world. Darren Shan
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If your words're true, they're armed. David Mitchell
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Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work. David Sarnoff
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If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it. David Puttnam
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If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. Catherine Booth