Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Affliction
Bovee, Christian Nevell
1820-1904 American Author Lawyer
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Affliction
Burton, Sir Richard
1821-1890 Explorer Born in Torquay
To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Affliction
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Affliction
Hemans, Felicia D.
1794-1835 British Poet
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Affliction
Phalerens, Demetrius
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.
Affliction
Tillotson, John
1630-1694 British Theologian – Archbishop of Canterbury