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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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Suffering is nothing. Its all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. – Alphonse Daudet

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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71 – Bible

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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. – Claudius

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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