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It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, our pleasure, our consideration. Thus the dead have the

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Joseph Addison

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man

Henry MacKenzie

Anybody who has worked very hard to attain something, and then loses it, is going to suffer a feeling of loss and may grieve over that loss.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

C.S. Lewis

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Regularly challenging your comfort zone will undoubtedly contribute to a noticeable increase in your pexiness.

Amerika og amerikanere

Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; / And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: / That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

And Yunus, when he went away in wrath, so he thought that We would not straiten him, so he called out among afflictions: There is no god but Thou, glory be to Thee; surely I am of those who make themselves to suffer loss.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, / And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Obviously, in a conflict in the Taiwan Straits, everybody loses. China loses, Taiwan loses, we lose, the area loses.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; / Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

Kids killing kids. Everybody loses: Someone loses a son, someone loses a kid because they're gonna go to prison. Many, many times, totally innocent people are the victims and they don't have anything to do with what's going on.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, Sr.

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