Calamity Quotes
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
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But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.
James G. Frazer
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The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.
Wang Yangming
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil
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We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.
Andrew Revkin
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“These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.”
Anne Royall
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus
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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; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too."
William Whately
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
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Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.
George Will
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
George Eliot
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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
