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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald me like molten lead.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
