| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Affliction |
| | | Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue. | 1 |
| Affliction like the iron-smith shapes as it smites. | 2 |
| Afflictions are the best blessings in disguise. | 3 |
| Afflictions are the good man’s shining time. Emmons. | 4 |
| Afflictions are the good man’s treasure. Dodd. | 5 |
Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress.
A brother to relieve how exquisite the bliss. Burns. | 6 |
| Are afflictions aught but mercies in disguise? Mallet. | 7 |
| Nothing would be more unhappy than a man that had not known affliction. Demetrius. | 8 |
| One affliction is better than a thousand exhortations. Turkish. | 9 |
| The afflicted person is sacred. Ovid. | 10 |
| The angels of affliction spread their toils alike for the virtuous and the wicked, for the mighty and the mean. Dr. Johnson. | 11 |
| The best remedy of affliction is submitting to Providence. | 12 |
There is mercy in affliction’s smart.
It heals those wounds of sin which mock all human art. Canter. | 13 | | |
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