No gains without pains.
Take pains. Be perfect.
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.
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.
Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.
For me, each of SNSD members is like my own body. If one gets hurts or hears bad things from someone else, it hurts me and pains me even more. And you know, it's impossible for only good things to happen to someone, so there will always be difficult and hurtful times; but during these times, I'm thankful that we're each other's supports and each other's strength. I hope in the future, we'll continue to lean on each other and be strong for each other. Also, when we need encouragement, we'll continue to look for each other too.
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.