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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain lying grief
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library. Charles Spurgeon
pain condolences heart
Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'
water mind trying
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. Alan Watts
water risk venture
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water. David Viscott
water creative guy
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details Dee Snider
water parent kitchen
This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. Charlaine Harris
water people rooftops
When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats. Charlie Melancon
water catholic lovely
Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water. Bob Saget
water thirsty
MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water? Bill Watterson
water rising christianity
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over. Catherine Booth
water accomplishment males
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on. Camille Paglia
world would-be birth
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
world marvelous
The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
world meaningless
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
world going-through-changes stills
Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on. Alan Price
world save-the-world please
Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world... Alan Moore
world clock made
Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
world advantage knows
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
world september
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day? Alan Jackson
world
I have the nicest life in the world. Alan Bean