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Emily Bronte Poet, Novelist
Pain

"He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain."

Thinking Hands Pain
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Pain

"The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven."

Self Christian Pain
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Pain

"The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth."

Christian Pain Fashion
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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
Pain

"When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful, romantic idea about love. It was almost that you were a victim - that there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. Shakespeare said the course of true love never did run smooth and I had a sense it had to be painful. It was such a revelation to realise it shouldn't be that way and you get to choose who you love and who you give your heart to."

Heart Running Pain
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Erasmus Darwin Physician, Poet, Inventor
Pain

"By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains."

Heart Pain Nature
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Evan Davis Journalist
Pain

"I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it."

Thinking Pain Gay
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Pain

"They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering."

Pain Mistake Wise
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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Pain

"I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain."

Country Pain Unemployment
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Dana Gould Comedian
Pain

"We broke up, and my first reaction was 'Fine - I've been through this too many times. I can't change your mind. I can't live your life for you. You're gone in your direction. I'm going to pick up; I'm going to go in my direction. I'm not going to live in the past. I'm not going to embrace the pain. You go, I'll go, and that will be it.' And I felt that way for an hour and 10 minutes."

Past Pain Live Your Life
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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Pain

"Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love."

Giving Pain Doors
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Pain

". . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression."

Play Pain Stress
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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
Pain

"I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted."

Running Order Pain
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Ben Harper Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Pain

"You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame."

Running Home Pain
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Ben Harper Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Pain

"The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain."

Long Lying Pain
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