Quote by Emily Dickinson
I like a look of Agony, because I know its true -- men do not sham

I like a look of Agony, because I know its true — men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — – Emily Dickinson

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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. – Emily Dickinson

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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. – Thomas Carlyle

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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