“When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.” ThinkingHeartPainStreetsReadySensesNoiseLeapHugHarmoniousAbsorbingWrappingBodily PainWrapping Up Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.” ActionPainLife IsPleasureAnimalCommonClassConcernedSeekingBeastAvoidingAnimal LifeAvoiding PainBodily FunctionsBodily Pain Author:Saint Augustine
“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.” PeopleThinkingMayMadePainYoungEvilVirtueExampleOughtReconcileSpartaBodily Pain Book:The works of John Locke ... Source: The works of John Locke ...