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Let me see: all discourses but mine own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome.
Ben Jonson
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She canoverpower, astonish, afflict, but she cannot win; her majestic presence and commanding features seem to disregard love, as a trifle to which they cannot descend.


— 1808  Of Sarah Siddons. Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres.

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Every morningI shall concern myself anew about the boundaryBetween the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-NoAnd pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoidUsing power,Cannot escape the compulsionTo afflict the world,So let us, cautious in dictionAnd mighty in contradiction,Love powerfully.

Martin Buber

— "Power and Love" (1926)

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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

— The Guardian (UK, 1989-07-28)

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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

— Hymn to Adversity, St. 1 (1742).

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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

— General Colin Powell, 4/21/93, receiving the UN-USA Global Leadership Award

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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 chunder sen

— Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.

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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

— As quoted in Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic (1987) by Timothy Travers, p. 162.

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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

— III, st. 3 (Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen)

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When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.

thomas gray

— Thomas Gray, Ode to Adversity. Same phrase "the torturing hour" in Campbell—Pleasures of Hope, Part I. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, scene 1.

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Soft, I did but dream. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act V, scene 3, line 179.

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Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.


— Plutarch, Morals, Of the Training of Children.

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Say: Nothing will afflict us save that which Allah has ordained for us. He is our Patron; and on Allah let the believers rely.


— 51 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation

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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!


— King Richard, scene iii (Act V)

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Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love - deed -Yes and the power -deed-No And pressing forward honor reality . We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world , So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction , Love powerfully.


— Martin Buber, in "Power and Love" (1926)

Tags: morning, concern, myself, anew, boundary, love, deed, power, deedNo

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Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love - deed -Yes and the power -deed-No And pressing forward honor reality . We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world , So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.


— Martin Buber, in "Power and Love" (1926)

Tags: morning, concern, myself, anew, boundary, love, deed, power, deedNo

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