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Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten our future days!

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.'

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.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

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.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.