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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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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.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
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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.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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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.
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