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Example sentences for "human suffering"

  • An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

  • In all the beautiful provision during the Middle Ages for the alleviation of human suffering, there was for the insane almost no care.

  • As we have already seen, while ample and beautiful provision was made for every other form of human suffering, for this there was comparatively little; and, indeed, even this little was generally worse than none.

  • This religion of human suffering, this redemption by pain, was not this yet another lure, a continual aggravation of pain and misery?

  • And, as he had already said in Bernadette's chamber, she remained the martyr, she it was who revealed to him the only religion which still filled his heart, the religion of human suffering.

  • The common object of the practitioners of all medical schools is the alleviation of human suffering.

  • He has devoted all his energies to the alleviation of human suffering.

  • Neither was it mainly because the martial enterprise of the earlier Romans and the gross sensuality of the later, hardened their hearts to human suffering.

  • Santee,) I have seen much misery, and much of human suffering.

  • Those who have been familiarized with warfare, know well, from personal experience, how callous it renders the heart to human suffering.

  • Nor was any form of human suffering wanting.

  • When, combined with the indifference to human suffering, the thirst for blood, which the spectacles of the amphitheatre had engendered, they assuredly make the persecutions abundantly explicable.

  • The portraits of him give a good impression of {151} his ascetic delicacy; they convey besides a certain wistfulness, the look of one close to human suffering, and unable to do all that he would wish to relieve it.

  • Much of human suffering is inevitable and incurable; it may be compensated or consoled, but it can be neither escaped nor remedied.

  • It is one enormous item in that tragic sum of human suffering which is entirely preventable.

  • He has ever before his mind the thought that his efforts are going to bring a little alleviation to the great sum of human suffering.

  • Just as the doctor as he grows older becomes more and more sensitive to the sight of human suffering, so the physiologist who has performed many experiments understands more and more thoroughly the seriousness of pain.

  • And first of all, because there is in this world much suffering, human suffering, which it is more important to allay than that of the victims of vivisection.

  • Even admitting that experiments on animals have contributed to the relief of human suffering, such measure of relief is infinitesimal compared with the pain which has been inflicted to secure it.

  • Is the experience of Great Britain to be repeated in the United States at the hands of persons who have become deluded into insensibiity to human suffering?

  • There is no question here of payment for a function, but of ministering to human suffering.

  • There is no gulf across which the voice of human suffering cannot be heard, beyond which massacre and torture cease to be execrable.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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