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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the
pricks.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. IX, v. 5)
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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was
none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample
them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my
garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. LXIII, v. 3)
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Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: A Vision of Poets--Conclusion
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To each his suff'rings; all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10)
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Author: Hesiod
Source: Works and Days (l. 240)
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Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?
Author: Thomas Holcroft
Source: Gaffer Grey
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Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Author: Thomas Holcroft
Source: Gaffer Grey
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And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssesy (bk. XV, l. 434), (Pope's translation)
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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae
metuant.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (III, 39)
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They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Footsteps of Angels (st. 5)
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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (III, 11, 7)
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Heriodes (V, 7)
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If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Truculentus (IV, 2, 54)
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Agamemnon (665)
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Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest (Miranda at I, ii)
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For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: The Cenci (act III, sc. 1)
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
Our chastisement or recompense.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Julian and Maddalo (l. 494)
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Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most,
That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?
Author: Sarah Williams ("Saidie")
Source: Is it so, O Christ in Heaven? (st. 3)
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He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Excursion (I, 370)
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Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Author: Heinrich Suso
Source: None
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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Author: Aesop
Source: None
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
Author: Albert Camus
Source: None
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The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Author: Roberta Flack
Source: None
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Source: None
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Author: Marcel Proust
Source: None
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Author: Robert Lynd
Source: None
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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Source: None
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Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
Author: Unknown
Source: None
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Author: William Faulkner
Source: None
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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