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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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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

by J.k. Rowling Found in: Pain Quotes,
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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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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

by George Meredith Found in: Pain Quotes,
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There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.

There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.

by Lord Lytton Found in: Pain Quotes,
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes read more

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no
small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Delight 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 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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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more read more

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

by Mother Teresa Found in: Love Quotes, Pain 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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