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Letter "A" » afflicted
«Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth»
«Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.»
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
Author: William Heberden
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afflicted, disagreeable, disorder, eating disorder, extinguish, fiftieth, liable, patients, respects, seized, sensation, stand still, uneasiness
«It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.»
Author: Aeschylus
(Dramatist, Playwright)
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Advice
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afflicted, afflicting, prosperity
«I went out full and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? / So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.»
«Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.»
«I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.»
«I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.»
«MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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addicted, afflicted, mugwump, The Vice
«I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: / I said in my haste, All men are liars.»
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