What Suffering Should Be

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What Suffering Should Be

SUFFERING in the truest sense can not fairly be pictured by a crushed and baffled, pain-smitten wreck of a man, but rather by the vision of a form erect and competent, sturdily set up for the lifting of loads and the carrying of cares, pushing on enduringly as conqueror and not as captive. To suffer is to bear up into the teeth of things, painfully if need be, but with no unstringing of fiber, no liquefying of the bones, no shuddering lapse into a mere quiver of aches and pains.—Anon.