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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
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
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease read more
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.
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, read more
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena read more
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]
I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or read more
I know of 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.
