Top Affliction Quotes
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
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
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid
Robert Southey 
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John Donne 
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William Banting 
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Fay Weldon 
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
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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
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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
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns
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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
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight L. Moody
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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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