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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
missing-you worry missing
He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing. Alan Hansen
missing matter where-you-are
No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something. Alan Arkin
missing young without-hope
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one. Chris Cleave
missing-someone house coats
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. David Mitchell
missing colombia
I miss Colombia. It's a great place. Camilo Villegas
missing torment
There is always something missing that torments me. Camille Claudel
missing infidelity kitchen
Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. Catherynne M. Valente
missing heaven firsts
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. Billy Joel
missing awareness presence-of-god
We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness. David Brenner
mind colour new-thought
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind body weakness
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
mind gout body
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind pay talent
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
mind toadstools insult
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else. Charles Stross
mind christianity holy
When filled with holy truth the mind rests. Charles Spurgeon
mind states state-of-mind
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.