#afflict

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. ↗

— Mel Gibson

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We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. ↗

— Robert Hall

#anxious #benefit #more #our #removed

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

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

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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

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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anxiety #away #certainly #children #commonly