Top Affliction Quotes
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
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone Weil
Max Beerbohm 
Christian Nestell Bovee 
H. G. Wells 
Charles Spurgeon 
John Donne 
Robert Southey 
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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 
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone Weil
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Popular Affliction Authors
Blaise Pascal OvidJoseph AddisonSimone WeilJean de la BruyereJames A. BaldwinAbu BakrJean Jacques RousseauH. G. WellsWashington IrvingChristian Nestell BoveeCharles SpurgeonMax BeerbohmMiguel de Unamuno
John DonneDwight L. MoodyBarbara DemingRobert SoutheyRobert BurnsWilliam BantingSamuel RutherfordFay WeldonRichard CecilDavid MalletAnne BradstreetJessye NormanFrancis Atterbury
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