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My tears were not for Bailey or Mother or even myself but for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of Life. In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?
- Maya Angelou
My tears were not for Bailey or Mother or even myself but for the helplessness of mortals who live on the sufferance of Life.
- Maya Angelou
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
- John Milton
Character The sun set, but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye; And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
- Mahatma Gandhi