--CHENEVIX.
There is healing in the bitter cup.--SOUTHEY.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the
blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the
clearer revelation of God's favor.--BACON.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's
disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.--LYTTON.
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.--HEBREWS 12:6.
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and
smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
--CHAPIN.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a
state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to
virtue.--SCHILLER.
AFFECTATION.--Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of
many a comparatively wise man.
We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as
by those which we aim at, or affect to have.--FROM THE FRENCH.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.
--ST. EVREMOND.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to
appear rich.--LAVATER.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
--HORACE MANN.
AFFECTION.--A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--DICKENS.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
--COLOSSIANS 3:2.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the
life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree.
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