Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.

There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not read more

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, read more

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.