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Letter "A" » affliction
«No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction»
«The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.»
«Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.»
«The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.»
«Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; / Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: / Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.»
«Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'tis sure the hardest science to forget»
«Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; / And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.»
«Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.»
«Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.»
«Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
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