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
John Donne 
Dwight L. Moody 
Anne Bradstreet 
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Francis Atterbury 
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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman 
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey
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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
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When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Samuel Rutherford
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
Abu Bakr
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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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