“God has commanded time to console the afflicted.”
“There's nothing like active employment to console the afflicted.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLVII : Startling Intelligence; Eliza to Gilbert
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“comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable”
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