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“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.”

Looks Book Light Pain Blind Delight Vain Eyesight

Book:Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series

Source: Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series

“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.”

Doe Sometimes Light Eye Pain Pleasure Blind Dawn Squares Pale Blindness Egotism Filters Here I Am Good God

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.”

Ifs Men Different Would Be Eye Pain Joy Water Tears Mouths Blind Strikes Cups Breasts Shed Consternation

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”

World May Children Made Hard Reason Seems Eye Pain Joy Stars Pleasure Behinds Sadness Birth Sorrow Sad Laughter Illusion Built Blind Mask Appetite Temperament Coarse Callous Birth Of A Child

Author:Oscar Wilde

“In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!”

Giving May Mean Children Hands Eye Pain Father Feet Drink Husband Sick Blind Lays Stranger Defense Hungry Naked Ease Gates Oppressed Traveler Widows Thirsty Lame Hands Of God Fatherless

Author:John Wesley

“All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.”

May Done Pain Voice Ability Perfect Honesty Areas Paid Blind Heavy Insight Stupidity Spots Loud Disability Cried Mathematician Gifted Physicist Tolls Blind Spots Loud Voices Bovine

Author:William S. Burroughs