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Afflictions clarify the soul.
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
There is healing in the bitter cup.
God measures out affliction to our need.
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted.
Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.
Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith
Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.
Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.