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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
gains action terrorism
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen. Alan Greenspan
gains potential returns
The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently. Richard Wallace
gains opportunity selling
The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.
gains applause harder
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause. David Hume
gains facts celebration
It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive. Denis Waitley
gains increases seeing split wage
We're seeing the productivity gains split up between wage increases and profits. Scott Brown
gains talk
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. Adlai E. Stevenson
gains spirit certain
I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear. Richard G. Scott
gains expenses livelihood
To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. Juvenal
miserable discontent
What is more miserable than discontent? William Shakespeare
miserable
We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.
miserable poet
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Billy Collins
miserable made situation
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. Brendan Behan
miserable homeless wit
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. Ben Okri
miserable obsessed hard
A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed. Edward Abbey
miserable people start
Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse. Robert Holden
miserable tone
We set a miserable tone from the start.
miserable
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it? Jane Austen