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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.


Ibrahim Babangida


#african #communities #fault #live #majority

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.


Abu Bakr


#believer #even #every #rewarded #thing

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.


Francis Atterbury


#confidence #corrects #levity #school #sinning

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.


Francis Bacon


#describing #ghost #hath #holy #holy ghost

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.


James A. Baldwin


#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

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

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#defeat #either #happens #something #you

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


John Donne


#any #enough #hath #man #man hath






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