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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does afflictio

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. – Sir Richard Francis Burton

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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. – Albert Camus

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Naked I came from my mothers womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. – Bible

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