“If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and… — William Whately Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who has been assiduous in acquiring the fruits of love will not cease loving even if he suffers a thousand… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue.… — George Will Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If… — George Horne Copy Share Image
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not… — Torii Mototada Copy Share Image
The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear,… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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