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Definition of Affliction
	Affliction The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Related Definitions: Afflicted, An, As, Being, Body, Cause, Continued, Distress, Grief, Grievous, Instance, Mind, Of, Or, Pain, Sickness, State, The

Affliction Quotations Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. Ovid The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. Simone Weil Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. Miguel de Unamuno

Affliction Translations affliction in Dutch is droefheit, hartzeer, beproeving affliction in Latin is plaga

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