Quotes with pain-threshold

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Richard Nixon Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bob Marley One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.
    Trenchtown Rock
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Alan Cohen One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William Shakespeare One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Bill Clinton Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Paul Tillich Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Havelock Ellis Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • David Hume Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time.
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Laurence Sterne Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • William C. Bryant Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Publilius Syrus Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • John Sterling Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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