ERBS 24:10.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous
circumstances, would have lain dormant.--HORACE.

In this wild world the fondest and the best
Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.
--CRABBE.

The lessons of adversity are often the most benignant when they seem
the most severe. The depression of vanity sometimes ennobles the
feeling. The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises
above it more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.
--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. If they
are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.

A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a v