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14 quotesSome virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Virtue
Joseph Addison
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Adversity
Henry Ward Beecher
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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Affliction
Christian Nevell Bovee
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction
Sir Richard Burton
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
Suffering
John Donne
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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Affliction
Benjamin Franklin
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Death and Dying
Jean De La Bruyere
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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
Trials
George Macdonald
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Affliction
Demetrius Phalerens
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Adversity
Rosalind Russell
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
Misfortunes
William Shakespeare
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Trials
Robert Southey
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Trials
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Adversity
H.G. Wells
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun