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Quotations regarding 'Affliction'

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison, English Writer (1672-1719)
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury, English Politician (1663-1732)
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James A. Baldwin, American Author (1924-1987)
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
William Banting, English Celebrity
I have known 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.
Max Beerbohm, English Actor (1872-1956)
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Anne Bradstreet, American Poet
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns, Scottish Poet (1759-1796)
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil, English Clergyman (1748-1810)
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Barbara Deming, American Author
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne, British Poet
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving, American Writer (1783-1859)
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Christopher Love, Welsh Educator
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet, Scottish Dramatist
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman (1837-1899)
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman, American Musician (1945-  )
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher (1623-1662)
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher (1712-1778)
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