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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. - Samue

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Cows
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Samuel Johnson
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Students
Author
Samuel Johnson
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Portraits
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Pain
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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt

Category:
Pain

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. – Bill Bradley

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Pain

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William Cullen Bryant

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Pain

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Pain

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Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. – Polykarp Kusch

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I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasnt confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be. – Emily Mortimer

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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. – Carol Burnett

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