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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. – Claudius

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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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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. – Edward Dahlberg

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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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Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. – Bible

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