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Definition of Pains
Pains

Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

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But, Care, Commonly, Effort, Form, Former, In, Labor, Or, Plural, Singular, Taken, The, Toilsome, Trouble, Used, Verb, With


Pains Quotations

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle

Pains Translations

pains in German is Qualen, Sorgen
pains in Latin is opera, negotium


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