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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.


Aeschylus


#afflicted #easy #give #prosperity

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.


Richard V. Allen


#bearers #been #born #common #consent

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.


Robert Frost


#alcoholism #disease #egotism #executives #popularly

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.


David Viscott


#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

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


Cardinal Richelieu


#god #men #pleased #war #which

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.


Charles Spurgeon


#been #cheer #go #good #how

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.


Jeremy Taylor


#apt #error #men #prefer #prosperous

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.


Jim Valvano


#also #background #bit #cancer #die

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.


Martin Luther


#any #destroys #families #greatest #humanity

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.


Washington Irving


#brood #cherish #consider #dead #divorced






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