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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
To each his suff'rings; all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
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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.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
