"I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil."
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"Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him."
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"My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God."
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"Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out."
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"India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation."
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"Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering."
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"Those who are content suffer no disgrace."
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"The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine."
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"No Victory Without Suffering"
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"Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't."
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"If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin."
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"For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain."
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"Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world."
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"It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought."
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"Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation."
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"Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement."
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"There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation."
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"It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]"
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"The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also."
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"Often they benefit who suffer wrong."
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