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Calamity Quotes by Rohinton Mistry
- Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
- After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which…
- ...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding…
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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… — 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 not sown… — 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 rebuke the… — Aeschylus
- There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice… — Eldridge Cleaver
- 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
- 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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- Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train… — 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… — Sun Tzu