#affliction

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. ↗

— George Washington

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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

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

— Robert Hall

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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. ↗

— Fay Weldon

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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