A Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Calamities More Often Painful Real Than

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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish - Novelist
November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

John of the Cross

The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

Stonewall Jackson

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

June Jordan

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Harold Acton

I think the only thing that really can be done - it would be painful, but less painful than the calamity we're heading toward - is to demand that people be responsible for their private obligations. No more bailouts, no more stimulus, no cash for clunkers.

Porter Stansberry

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

Voltaire

There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

Mat Kearney

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Chanakya

Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.

Simone Giertz

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.