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• The stock actor is a stage calamity

  George Bernard Shaw

  Actors, Stage

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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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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Affliction, Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 1

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• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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• The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Disappointment, Loss, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stones, Trouble, Burden

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

  John Templeton

  Opportunity, Bears, Prepared

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• On Max Yasgur’s six hundred acres, everyone dropped their defenses and became a huge extended family. Joining together, getting into the music and each other, being part of so many people when calamity struck — the traffic jams, the rainstorms — was a life-changing experience. None of the problems damaged our spirit. In fact, they drew us closer. We recognized one another for what we were at the core, as brothers and sisters, and we embraced one another in that knowledge.

  Michael Lang

  Brother, Life Changing, People

  Michael Lang (2009). “The Road to Woodstock”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Becoming, Too Late

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.9

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• The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Home, Adversity

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Age, Might

  Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.186

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• It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

  Heath L'Estrange

  Wisdom, Loss, Comfort

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• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251

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• We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Disturbed

  John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education”

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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

  War, Doubt, Needs

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

  John Tillotson

  Men, Relief, Cases

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• I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

  Helen Keller

  Spring, World, Return

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.52, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

  Albert Pike

  Teaching, Justice, Unjust

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Dream, Shadow, Substance

  Sidney Sheldon (1990). “Memories of Midnight”

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• The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

  Alafair Burke

  Lying, Thinking, Crime Novels

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• To me, self-description is a calamity.

  Jasper Johns

  Self Esteem, Self, Description

  "What Does a Jasper Johns Flag Stand For?" by John Seed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2017.

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• No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

  Guru Nanak

  Sacred, Purity, Careful

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• How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fate, Glasses, Perfect

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