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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Little things console us because little things afflict us. -- Blaise Pascal
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. -- Cardinal Richelieu
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. -- Robert Frost
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. -- Harold S. Geneen
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. -- Martin Luther
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- David Shuster
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. -- Aubrey de Grey
Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers! -- Teresa of Avila
Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals. -- Nachman of Breslov
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. -- Quintilian
No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul. -- Rumi
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome -- Ben Jonson
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- Clarence Darrow
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times. -- Pope Pius X
The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can. -- Michael Drayton
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards. -- Teresa of Avila
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart. -- Sophie Swetchine
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. -- Edmund Spenser
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. -- Eric Hoffer
Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! -- Thomas Gray
The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven. -- Hesiod
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. -- Samuel Smiles
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people -- Henry Adams
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal. -- Sophie Swetchine
There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive. -- Benjamin
Most of us entered journalism and joined news organizations because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- David Shuster
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed. -- William Butler Yeats
Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you. -- John Bosco
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character. -- Keshub Chandra Sen
Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.' -- Dalai Lama
If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity. -- Martha Beck
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh. -- Kathleen Parker
The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. -- Colin Powell

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