#afflict

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

#death #did #die #died #others

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#incident #natural #our #pitiful #sex

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. ↗

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#afflict #afflicted #also #comfort #comfortable

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#beauty #doubt #ever #immoral #looked

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

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#blind #love #madness

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

— Princess Diana

#comfort #comfortable #you

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. ↗