Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
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Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give,
And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
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Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:
As, painfully to pore upon a book,
To seek the light of truth, which truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.