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Tag Name "Afflict" (39)

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Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
Antoine Lavoisier
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All discourses but my own afflict me they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
Ben Jonson
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He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.
Maimonides
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As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
Hesiod
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.
Kelly Miller
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All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Henry Adams
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The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
Michael Drayton
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Sophie Swetchine
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones it is time enough when the real ones arrive.
Benjamin
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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
William Shakespeare
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These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can. -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
Teresa of Avila
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A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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