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«Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.»
«Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
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afflict, aspire, diminish, human species, prolong, routes, well-being
«In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Life
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afflict, afflicted, comfortably, contentedly, happily, verily
«Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.»
«For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.»
«Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? / Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? / Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? / Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.»
Author: Bible
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acceptable, afflict, bow down, break bread, break loose, bulrush, bulrushes, cast out, let loose, light bread, morning glory, oppressed, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, speedily
«God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.»
«How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.»
«Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.»
«If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; / And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.»
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