“ The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirt of resistance to it. ”
- Jean Nicolas Grou- Copy
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“ The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. ”
- Jean Nicolas Grou- Copy
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“ In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. ”
- Michael Bruce- Copy
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“ Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ Without any inhibitions of any kind I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom. ”
- John Curtin- Copy
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“ We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,corned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. ”
- Colley Cibber- Copy
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“ I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
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“ I acknowledge that it gives me a pang of sorrow to see the language of the bards and brehons, of the Saints and Sages, the language of Rory O'More, of Patrick Sarsfield, and Owen Roe O'Neill, the best men that Ireland ever produced, kicked contemptuously aside, crawling away, as it were, with a broken leg to die, like a hunted dog in a ditch, a vile and lingering death. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. ”
- Sir Thomas More- Copy
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“ Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing… But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 't is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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