Top Affliction Quotes
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
William Banting
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid
H. G. Wells 
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Jessye Norman 
Max Beerbohm 
Robert Burns 
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Joseph Addison 
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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
William Banting
58% of people like this quote
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
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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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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid
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Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Blaise Pascal OvidJoseph AddisonSimone WeilJean de la BruyereJames A. BaldwinAbu BakrJean Jacques RousseauH. G. WellsWashington IrvingChristian Nestell BoveeCharles SpurgeonMax BeerbohmMiguel de Unamuno
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