#afflict

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

— Robert South

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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #tfios #ignorance

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#appear #before #caring #concern #cure

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allies #approach #bureaucracy #busy #congress

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

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Elizabeth I

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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

#afflict #afflicted #also #comfort #comfortable

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common

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