The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
Time and pains will do anything.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
I respect people who come forward and speak, but I'm not asking most of the sex workers I interview now about their work. I'm asking them about their lives in general or their political organizing. I take pains source things pointing back to intellectual work that sex workers have produced, because that's really absent.
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
. . . causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).
Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions. . . . Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert. . . . I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.