Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Pain
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Men take more pains to mask than mend.
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Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.
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There is no gains without pain.
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The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
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Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
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Hope of gain lessens pain.
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We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.
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There's no gain, without pain.
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Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
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Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.
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No gains without pains.
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Benjamin Franklin

- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States