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• There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Redress, Right Words

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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

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

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• Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Half, Whole

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.1473, e-artnow

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Education, Failure

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 120, 1856.

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• Calamity was ordained for man.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men

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• It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Reaching Goals, Reaching For The Stars

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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

  Tragedy, Needs, Gone

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

  Horace

  Genius, Host

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book II, satire viii, lines 73 - 74, c. 35 BC, 30 BC.

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• Crises are challenges, not calamities.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Challenges, Crisis

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• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Jealousy, Sarcastic

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 41

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• Calamity is the test of integrity.

  Samuel Richardson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.86

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• No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Years, Ideas, Mysterious

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.255, Vintage

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• The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Storm, Thunder, Bolts

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.32

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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

  Differences, Would Be, Politics

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• 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

  Art, Adversity, Mind

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Needs, Omen

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.141, Aegitas

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• To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

  Mark Twain

  Long, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

  1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.

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• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Loss, Greatness, Self

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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

  Education, Learning, People

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• A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

  Epictetus

  Philosophy, Men, Novices

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Long, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.170, Modern Library

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• A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Men, Tragedy, Stories

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• 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

  Life, Character, Adversity

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• Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Criminal Mind, Fortune, Satisfied

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 274, 1856.

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• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

  Athenaeus

  Men, Sake, Losing

  Athenaeus (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Athenaeus (Illustrated)”, p.471, Delphi Classics

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