Calamities Quotes
89 quotes by 75 authors
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them…
— Pietro Aretino
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin;…
— William Whately
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest…
— Torii Mototada
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These…
— Sun Tzu
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No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind…
— Tom O'Connor
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails…
— Joseph Addison
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our…
— Martin Luther
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
— Seneca the Younger
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the…
— Edward Jenner
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We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses…
— Thomas Jefferson
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath…
— James Russell Lowell
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
— Horace
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will…
— Thomas Paine
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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
— Al-Tabarani
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It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which…
— Henry Mackenzie
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