"The ox suffers, the cart complains."
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"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."
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"What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought."
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"I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!"
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"The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it."
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"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty..."
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"Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over."
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"If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness."
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"We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need."
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"Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image."
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"One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering."
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"Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile."
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"Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering."
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"You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!"
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"I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other."
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"I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe."
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"There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts."
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"The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?"
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"When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well."
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"Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!"
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