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suffering purpose might
Whitley Strieber I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.
suffering peculiar providence
Samuel Johnson The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
suffering divine knows
Willa Cather Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
suffering would-be affliction
Saint Francis de Sales Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
suffering doe serving-others
Saint Augustine I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
suffering too-much want
Saint Augustine For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.
suffering ordinary levels
Winston Graham When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
suffering christianity inevitable
Winston Churchill The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.
would-be individual certain
Richard Owen That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
would-be be-good western
Richard Jenkins A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.
would-be cabins world
Richelle Mead I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.
would-be firsts patient
William S. Burroughs I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
would-be tonight want
William J. H. Boetcker If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
would-be eruption footnotes
Will Cuppy [Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
would-be prime ministers
William F. Buckley, Jr. If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,
would-be hell knows
Richard Rorty If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
would-be enjoyment pleasant
Robert Smith Surtees Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
affliction return seek till
Bible Bible I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
affliction easy easy-things
William Blake It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
affliction prosperity made
William Gurnall Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
affliction slavery bread
Jonathan Sacks If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
affliction although born cometh doth fly forth man neither sparks spring trouble unto
Bible Bible Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
affliction alleviate remove
Laurence Sterne Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
affliction silver tested
John Bevere Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
affliction stamps impression
Pierre Bayle The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
affliction bad doubly terrible three twice
Geoff Lawson It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.