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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Affliction

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
—C. N. Bovée

Afflictions are like lightning: you can not tell where they will strike until they have fallen.
—Jean B. H. Lacordaire