"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Temple, Sir William on ability   

"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

Fields, W. C. on abstinence
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"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."

Temple, Sir William on abstinence
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on ability
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"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on ability
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

Pollard, John G. on ability
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"Ability is sexless."

Pankhurst, Christabel on ability
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on ability
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"Not many men have both good fortune and good sense."

Livy, Titus on ability
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

Santayana, George on pain
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"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."

Sade, Marquis De on pain
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Rohn, Jim on pain
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"Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment."

Rogers, Will on pain
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on pain
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"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."

Morrison, Toni on pain
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria."

Wolf, Naomi on pain
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"Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged."

Seneca on pain   

"One pain is lessened by another's anguish."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body."

Syrus, Publilius on pain
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"Pain of mind is worse than pain of body."

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on pain
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"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain
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"Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health."

Tupper, Martin on pain
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"Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute."

Twain, Mark on pain
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"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."

Weil, Simone on pain
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"Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on pain   

"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo on pain
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

Marx, Karl on pain
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."

Augustine, St. on pain
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"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."

Bradley, Bill on pain
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on pain
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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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