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Letter "A" » afflictive
«Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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abandoned, afflictive, clouds, pass on, temporary, ultimately
«The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.»
«It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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afflictive, encroach, encroached, encroaches, encroaching, encroach upon, encumbrance, performing arts
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