#calamity

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity. ↗

— Philip Massinger

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Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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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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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ↗

— William Davenant

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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. ↗

— Earl Browder

#been #calamity #cold #cold war #consideration