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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
As, read more
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.
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
There's a pang in all rejoicing,
And a joy in the heart of pain;
And the wind read more
There's a pang in all rejoicing,
And a joy in the heart of pain;
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
