#calamity

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

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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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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Philip Massinger

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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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