#alam

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 the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee

Crises are challenges, not calamities. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#challenges #crises

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#age #calamities #ice #ice age #want

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#anxiety #been #calamity #course #depressed

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious. ↗

— Peter Lombard

#elect #forth #go #grieved #impious

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ↗

— Beilby Porteus

#over #suffers #them #twice #who

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#calamity #dangerous #dangerous thing #indeed #learning

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#been #calamity #escaped #first #first thing

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#better #calamities #character #elasticity #escapes