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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.


William Banting


#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.


Bodhidharma


#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.


Anne Bradstreet


#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace

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.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#afflicted #also #comfort #comfortable #comfortably

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.


Harold S. Geneen


#alcoholism #business #disease #egotism #executives

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.


John Donne


#any #enough #hath #man #man hath

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.


Jessye Norman


#am #i #i am #particular #say

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.


Keith O'Brien


#beliefs #case #failings #flaws #honest

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.


Bertrand Russell


#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.


Charles Spurgeon


#been #cheer #go #good #how






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