AFFLICTION in Classic Quotes

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1  We are your own children, yet you show us no mercy in all our misery and afflictions.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX
2  As it is, I am oppressed with care, and with the afflictions which heaven has seen fit to heap upon me.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
3  As it is, I am oppressed with care, and with the afflictions which heaven has seen fit to heap upon me.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIX
4  My dears, heaven has been pleased to try me with more affliction than any other woman of my age and country.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
5  I have nothing of the immortal about me, neither in body nor mind, and most resemble those among you who are the most afflicted.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VII
6  You are always taking something of that sort in your head," replied Minerva, "and that is why I cannot desert you in your afflictions; you are so plausible, shrewd and shifty.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XIII
7  I know all about her husband, and have been partner with him in affliction, but I am afraid of passing through this crowd of cruel suitors, for their pride and insolence reach heaven.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVII
8  Then, as children rejoice when their dear father begins to get better after having for a long time borne sore affliction sent him by some angry spirit, but the gods deliver him from evil, so was Ulysses thankful when he again saw land and trees, and swam on with all his strength that he might once more set foot upon dry ground.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V