<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Affliction - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,   Serves but to brighten our future days!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;  Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself,  'Enough, enough, and die.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself,  'Enough, enough, and die.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears  Do scald me like molten lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come  Where in the shadow of a great affliction,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1667]]></link><description><![CDATA[With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come  Where in the shadow of a great affliction,   The soul sits dumb!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1673]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1675]]></link><description><![CDATA[By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item></channel></rss>