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Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi read more
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes read more
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
