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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Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit – Life! – Emily Dickinson

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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part. – Emily Dickinson

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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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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Ive suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. – Richard Armour

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Suffering is part of the divine idea. – Henry Ward Beecher

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