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The fiercest agonies have shortest reign.—BRYANT, Mutation
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Iron, left in the rain
And fog and dew,
With rust is covered.—Pain
Rusts into beauty too.—CAROLYN DAVIES, Rust
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He has seen but half the universe who never has been shewn the house of Pain.—EMERSON, Natural History of the Intellect
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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.—MATTHEW HENRY, Commentaries
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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
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Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.—KEATS, Endymion
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Pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns
All patience.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
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An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.—Proverb
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No pains, no gains.—Proverb
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Pain is the price that God putteth upon all things.—Proverb
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Past pain is pleasure.—Proverb
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Lord, how we lose our pains!—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
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One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
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I'll rack thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
That beasts shall tremble at thy din.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
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He loves to make parade of pain.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.—FRANCIS THOMPSON, Daisy
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Pain with the thousand teeth.—WILLIAM WATSON, The Dream of Man
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It changed the soul of one to sour
And passionate regret;
To one it gave unselfish power
To love and to forget.—S. L. WHITCOMB, Pain