"God afflicts with the mind of a father,……" — Robert South
"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."
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33 Quotes by Robert South
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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret…
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not…
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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the…
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives…
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that…
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and…
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to…
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An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
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He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.
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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
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More Afflicts Quotes
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one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
— Joseph Hall
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing.…
— Fred Saberhagen
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
— Agnes Repplier
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
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I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of…
— Pope Francis
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Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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