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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Innovation
Walter Bagehot

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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Genius
Thomas Carlyle

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Jests that give pains are no jests.
Jest
Miguel De Cervantes

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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
Taxes and Taxation
Randolph Churchill

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
Pleasure
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Happiness
Confucius

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
Pain
John Dryden

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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Genius
John Dryden

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There are no gains without pains.
Pain
Benjamin Franklin

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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Labor
Robert Herrick

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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Epitaphs
Helen Hunt Jackson

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage
Samuel Johnson

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Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Thoughts and Thinking
King Jr. Martin Luther

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Work
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
Procrastination
Proverb

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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Fashion
Yves Saint-Laurent

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Pleasure
Young

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun