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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.'
justice long people
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. Chinua Achebe
justice democracy essentials
But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice. Edward Gibbon
justice criminals flaws
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. Ben Whishaw
justice-for-all liberty united-states
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all. Benazir Bhutto
justice social-justice social
Freedom is incomplete without social justice. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
justice suffering social-justice
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. Athol Fugard
justice publicity eternity
The price of Justice is eternal publicity. Arnold Bennett
justice causes beam
Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails. William Shakespeare
justice equal
Justice always whirls in equal measure.
might impossible wells
I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it. Barnett Newman
might likes given
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. Audrey Tautou
might stranger
They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew. Deb Caletti
might
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think. Lorraine Toussaint
might shape
The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none. John Milton
might opposed people point
The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think, Joe Vinson
might
We still thought we might be able to do it.
might suspects universe
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. Kurt Vonnegut
might bed very-good
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good. Bill Nighy