Let me see: all discourses but mine own afflict me; they seem harsh,
impertinent, and irksome.
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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.
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 BuberThe 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 powellEducation 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 senMere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
Samuel SmilesO 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 YeatsWhen iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.
thomas graySoft, I did but dream. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
william shakespeareEat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.
Say: Nothing will afflict us save that which Allah has ordained for us. He is our Patron; and on Allah let the believers rely.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
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.
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.