Pains
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
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Pains Quotations
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
Aeschylus
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
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.
Emile M. Cioran
I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne
Pains Translations
pains in German is Qualen, Sorgen
pains in Latin is opera, negotium
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