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Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.
A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.
Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.
Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.
The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction