"Syria has become the great tragedy of this……" — Antonio Guterres

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• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had… — Joseph Addison
• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce
• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to… — Aeschylus
• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong… — Eldridge Cleaver
• When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the… — William Whately
• Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be… — Sun Tzu
• If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you… — Torii Mototada
• Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the… — Alexander Hamilton
• Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which… — Sun Tzu

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