"Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?"
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"I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison."
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"It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?"
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"It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering."
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"The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-"
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"At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer."
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"When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind."
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"Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe."
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"Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness"
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"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."
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"An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer."
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"The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever."
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"It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law."
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"Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite."
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"Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more."
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"What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
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"I think everyone always has time to suffer."
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"The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say."
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"The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness."
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"Suffering is universal."
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