"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

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"I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore, it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too."

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"I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain."

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"Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?"

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"When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped."

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

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"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."

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"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."

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"None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again."

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"Clear your mind of "can't.""

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