The ox lies still while the geese are hissing. Pr.
The pain of an unfilled wish is small in comparison with that of repentance; for the one stands in presence of the vast open future, whilst the other has the irrevocable past closed behind it. Schopenhauer.
The pain that any one actually feels is still of all others the worst. Locke.
The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith.
The pains of power are real, its pleasures are 40 imaginary. Colton.
The painful warrior famousèd for fight, / After a thousand victories, once foil'd, / Is from the books of honour razèd quite, / And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Shakespeare.
The painter should grind his own colours; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operator than any man in his mills; and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill, and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain. Ruskin.
The parasite courtier in the palace is the legitimate father of the tyrant. Brougham.
The parcel of books, if they are well chosen, ... awakens within us the diviner mind, and rouses us to a consciousness of what is best in others and ourselves. John Morley.
The pardon of an offence must, as a benefit 45 conferred, put the offender under an obligation; and thus direct advantage at once accrues by heaping coals of fire on the head. Goethe.