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If a person commits a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.
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There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
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Pliny Quotes
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
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William Henley Quotes
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
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Abraham Crowley Quotes
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
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Eleanor Perenyi Quotes
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
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Mortimer Collins Quotes
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Frank Leahy Quotes
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.
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Paul Johannes Tillich Quotes
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.
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Dan Devine Quotes
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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Francis Thompson Quotes
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Arthur Christopher Benson Quotes
I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period.
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