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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.
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Could it be worth thy wondrous waste of pains I to publish to the world thy lack of brains?
The Rosciad (1761) -
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
The Problem of Pain (1940) -
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
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