Calamity Quotes
264 quotes by 202 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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
— Joseph Addison
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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.
— Aeschylus
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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…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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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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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
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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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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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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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There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable…
— George C. Marshall
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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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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
— Samuel Johnson
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
— Samuel Johnson
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When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.
— Jack Kemp
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