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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease read more
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.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:
That read more
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!
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena read more
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]
