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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Author:
Virgil
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Author:
Virgil
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
Author:
John Spalding
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Author:
Philip Massinger
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These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
Author:
Frederick Leboyer
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Author:
Hesiod
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Author:
Harry Fosdick
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Author:
William Davenant
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The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
Author:
Richard Curtis
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Author:
Charles Colton
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Author:
Eldridge Cleaver
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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
Author:
Earl Browder
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Author:
Robert Bly
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Author:
Aeschylus
