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John Tillotson
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
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Benjamin Franklin
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
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Charles Hadden Spurgeon
The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
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Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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Edward Young
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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Felicia D. Hemans
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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H. G. Wells
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
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Helen Keller
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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John Brown
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days!
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John Greenleaf Whittier
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
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John Powell
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
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Max Beerbohm
I know of 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.
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Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt; Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.
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Robert Burns
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Robert Southey
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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