Affliction Quote by Henry Vaughan Download Open image “Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.” — Henry Vaughan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Mother Painful Parenting Son Sorrow Yield
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the… — Robert E. Murray Copy Share Image
AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade;… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“ The Dawning Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry, The Bridegroom’s coming! fill the sky; Shall it in the evening… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings,… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image