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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
spots occasional concerts
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. Archibald MacLeish
spots vocalist
I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. Ben Gibbard
spots whole-life whole
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. Brad Thor
spots
I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better. Zeke Jones
spots ifs
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emile M. Cioran
spots sweet
Different VCs have different sweet spots for where they want to invest.
spots starter
Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,
spots surf
The surf spots are still not deemed safe.
spots
They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. James Lind
pathos manage our-lives
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? Jorge Luis Borges
pathos profundity
You can't learn pathos or profundity. Nigel Kennedy