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| Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | Finley Peter Dunne | 1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist |
| The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. | Harold S. Geneen | 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT |
| It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. | Aeschylus | BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist |
| 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. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of AFFLICTION, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. | Anne Bradstreet | 1612-1672, British Puritan Poet |
| To bear other people's AFFLICTIONs, everyone has courage and enough to spare. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of AFFLICTION. [Isaiah 48:10] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of AFFLICTION, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. | Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher |
| The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of AFFLICTION. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
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| From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. | Charles Sumner | 1811-1874, American Statesman |
| AFFLICTION, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female AFFLICTION. | Cynthia Propper-Seton | |
| No one could be more happy than a man who has never known AFFLICTION | Demetrius Phalerens | |
| Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. | Don Delillo | 1926-, American Author |
| There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men. | Edmond and Jules De Goncourt | 1822-1896, French Writers |
| Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. | Felicia D. Hemans | 1794-1835, British Poet |
| The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the AFFLICTIONs of Job than the felicities of Solomon. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Let your heart feel for the AFFLICTIONs and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
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| Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its AFFLICTIONs. | H.G. Wells | 1866-1946, British-born American Author |
| If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible AFFLICTION. | Jean De La Bruyere | 1645-1696, French Writer |
| Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. | Jeremy Taylor | 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer |
| Nothing can render AFFLICTION so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for AFFLICTIONs? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what AFFLICTION soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. | John Bunyan | 1628-1688, British Author |
| And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| 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. | John Tillotson | 1630-1694, British Theologian - Archbishop of Canterbury |
| A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and AFFLICTIONs which can befall us from without. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Some virtues are only seen in AFFLICTION and others only in prosperity. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. | Martin Buber | 1878-1965, Austrian-born Israeli Theologian, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1864-1936, Spanish Philosophical Writer |
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| The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. | Phillips Brooks | 1835-1893, American Minister, Poet |
| You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable, | Princess of Wales Diana | 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales |
| When something an AFFLICTION happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. | Rosalind Russell | |
| As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does AFFLICTION purify virtue. | Sir Richard Burton | 1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay |
| It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and AFFLICTIONs, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. | Sir Roger L'Estrange | |
| No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest AFFLICTION of life is never to be afflicted. | Source Unknown | |
| Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. | Zoroaster | BC 628?-551?, Persian Religious Leader-Founder of Zoroastrianism |
