"AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world."

"Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud whi…"

"There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the…"

"The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me…"

"Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate."

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"

"Damna minus consueta movent."

"Henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, Enough, enough, and die."

"Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead."

"Cum in omni fere litterarum studio dulce laboris lenimen et summum doloris solamen dum uiuitur insitum considerem, tu…"