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Pain: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, World's cruelty is bitter bane But pain is not the fruit of pain.— E. B. BROWNING — A Vision of Poets. St. 146.

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.— DRYDEN — Alexander's Feast. L. 58.

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!— C. MARIA EDGEWORTH — Ormond. Ch. V.

King Corny in a Paroxysm of the Gout. So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.

Job III. V. 24. There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. II. Canto V. St. 8. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 99.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.— MARGARET J. PRESTON — Old Songs and.

New. Nature's Lesson. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 72.

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell, -that monster callèd Paine.— SIR PHILIP SIDNEY — Sidera. Paine.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.— FRANCIS THOMPSON — Daisy. St. 15.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 793.