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