"The greatest calamity which could befall us would……" — Thomas Jefferson

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• I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is… — William Blake
• No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four… — Tom O'Connor
• Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the… — Miguel de Cervantes
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within… — Joseph Addison
• Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be… — Walter Savage Landor
• The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense,… — John Calvin
• It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there… — John Flavel
• Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. — Rabindranath Tagore
• Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however,… — Unknown Author
• Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. — Margaret Widdemer
• Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress,… — Paul Hawken

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