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Show Gents of XEfooiiQbt AFFLICTION Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary gTaees. M. Henry. Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm f orti-! tude take root and strongly flourish. flour-ish. David Mallet. Consixler how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things' for which you are angry and grieved. Marcus Antonius. I . I Envy, rivalry, hate need no temporary indulgence that they bei destroyed through suffering; they should be stifled from lack of airj and freedom. Mary Baker Eddy.j Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. Hatx-lett. Hatx-lett. It is the temper of the highest hearts to strive most upwards when they are most burdened. Sir Philip Sidney. V |