Afflicted Quotes
156 quotes by 137 authors
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
— Aeschylus
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
— Victor Hugo
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his…
— Osbert Sitwell
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I…
— Tryon Edwards
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
— Simone Weil
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The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained…
— Sun Tzu
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
— John Milton
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
— Joseph Hall
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for…
— Julian of Norwich
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
— Maxim Gorky
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
— George MacDonald
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all…
— William Gurnall
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that…
— Phillips Brooks
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
— Clarence Darrow
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are…
— William Blackstone
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Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving…
— Boomer Esiason
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