"He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over." — Beilby Porteus

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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
• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce
• When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the… — William Whately
• 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
• Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which… — Sun Tzu
• No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four… — Tom O'Connor
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within… — Joseph Addison
• The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger… — Martin Luther
• Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger
• While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined… — Edward Jenner

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