"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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"Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction"
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"Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown."
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"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
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"Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!."
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"Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die."
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"Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate."
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"Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening"
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"Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart."
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"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God."
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"The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith"
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"It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted."
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"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?"
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"Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves."
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"The real affliction of old age is remorse."
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"Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction."
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