• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

1. prisoners
2. fiercest
3. shortest
4. reign

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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. by : William C. Bryant

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