"Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells."
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"All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape."
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"The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing."
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"The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent."
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"I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves."
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"There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently."
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"Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth."
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"All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate."
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"We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other."
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"Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents."
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"Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word."
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"Those who have been made great have first suffered."
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"I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."
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"I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics."
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"To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman."
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"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."
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"When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?"
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"In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering."
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"Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion."
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"Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned."
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