Affliction

(399 votes)   To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(323 votes)   Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(321 votes)   As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Sir Richard Burton
1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay

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