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Calamity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- 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…
- Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the…
- Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by…
- Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
- When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
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- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson