A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.
It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I've never had an 'I've arrived' moment. I don't like that word, 'arrived.' If you say you've arrived, then you've achieved your dream. You've done all you can. 'I'm the guy now.' I don't like that.
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