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    Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
    Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
    As, painfully to pore upon a book,
    To seek the light of truth, which truth the while
    Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

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Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.

by Charles Lamb Found in: Pain Quotes,
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite read more

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

by Lady Bird Johnson Found in: Pain Quotes,
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

by Laurence Sterne Found in: Pain Quotes,
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Pain is never permanent.

Pain is never permanent.

by Saint Teresa Of Avila Found in: Pain Quotes,
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These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as read more

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Delight Quotes,
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Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.

by George Eliot Found in: Pain Quotes,
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Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

by Maria Edgeworth Found in: Pain Quotes,
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Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling
you seem to say so.

Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling
you seem to say so.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Delight Quotes,
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

by William Cullen Bryant Found in: Pain Quotes,
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