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• No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Imagination

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

  Manly Hall

  Philosophy, Priorities, Substance

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.

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• Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

  Jane Austen

  London, Educated, Audience

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.34.

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• [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

  Harriet Martineau

  Pain, Feelings, Shadow

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