Suffering

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SUFFERING: In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. (Unknown Source)
SUFFERING: The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)
SUFFERING: In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. (Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)
SUFFERING: Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
SUFFERING: Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Edwin H. Chapin, U.S. poet and preacher, 1814-1880)
SUFFERING: Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
SUFFERING: It requires more courage to suffer than to die. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader during the French Revolution who also served twice as Emperor of the French, 1769-1821)