Naguib Mahfouz
Novelist
"It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind."
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Affliction
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Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary."
Jeremiah Burroughs
Puritan Minister, Author
"Your mercies are more than your afflictions."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy."
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"One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world."
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"I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks."
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"Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his."
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"In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy."
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"When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
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"Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions."
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"Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ"
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"You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity."
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"Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced."
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"It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?"
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"Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it."
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"Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it."
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"Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease."
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"Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it."
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"To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare."
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"If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change."
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