11 Metaphors for afflictions

"My greatest affliction during the past year has been the terrible extravagance which prevails.

This affliction was a terrible blow to Carlyle, from which he never recovered.

So that affliction is a school or academy, wherein the best scholars are prepared to the commencements of the Deity.

* * Affliction, when I know it, is but this A deep alloy, whereby man tougher is To bear the hammer; and the deeper still, We still arise more image of his will; Sickness, an humorous cloud 'twixt us and light; And death, at longest, but another night, Man is his own star, and that soul that can Be honest, is the only perfect man.

"That capricious and detestable spirit of Detraction, which on Earth never fails to persecute superior Virtue, has not scrupled to assert that the affliction, to which I allude, was the mere consequence of paternal austerity.

The notions we have of Heaven now are nothing like what it is, as Drelincourt says; therefore be comforted under your afflictions, and believe that the Almighty has a particular regard to you, and that your afflictions are marks of God's favor; and when they have done the business they are sent for, they shall be removed from you.

On the contrary, in these situations, an alloy of vice is mixed with virtue enough to afford materials for as deep tragedies as ever poet fancied or stage exhibited; and visiters of relief would act the part of angels descending from Heaven among men, whose chief affliction is the neglect of unthinking affluence.

Affliction is a thing which depends on the will: it is an evil.

"We'll not talk of our individooal sorrers when affliction is general, Jane Browst.

This sore affliction was the means of drawing out much sympathy from many of the natives.

She who had borne suffering so well, who had successfully struggled to conceal every trace of emotion, when affliction was her allotted portion, was now too weak to bear the sudden transition from such bitter grief to overwhelming joy.

11 Metaphors for  afflictions