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Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Prayer for all Conditions of Men
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Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,
Serves but to brighten our future days!
Author: John Brown (1)
Source: Bararossa (act V, sc. 3)
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: In Eutropium (II, 149)
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The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: In Eutropium (II, 149)
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Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always
oppress those who are unfortunate.
[Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;
Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (III, 6, 21)
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Henceforth, I'll bear
Affliction till it do cry out itself,
'Enough, enough, and die.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi)
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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald me like molten lead.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vii)
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: Madoc in Wales (III, l. 176)
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The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of
affliction.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Author: Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Source: Gleanings Among the Sheaves--Sorrow's Disciple
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What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (I, 460)
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With silence only as their benediction,
God's angels come
Where in the shadow of a great affliction,
The soul sits dumb!
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: To my Friend on the Death of his Sister
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Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 415)
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Author: Sir Richard Burton
Source: None
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Author: John Tillotson
Source: None
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Author: Felicia D. Hemans
Source: None
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I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Author: Max Beerbohm
Source: None
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Author: Demetrius Phalerens
Source: None
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When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Author: Rosalind Russell
Source: None
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By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
Author: John Powell
Source: None
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Author: John Tillotson
Source: None
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Author: H. G. Wells
Source: None
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I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Author: Helen Keller
Source: None
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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