#afflict

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#death #did #die #died #others

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#country #everlasting #every #exhausted #force

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. ↗

— David Mallet

#calm #flourish #fortitude #honor #humility

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#feel #feel good #good #know #like

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. ↗

— Princess Diana

#comfort #comfortable #you

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. ↗

— Jessye Norman

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Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#beliefs #case #failings #flaws #honest

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

#god #men #pleased #war #which

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. ↗

— Robert South

#again #father #god #kills #may