He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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.
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.
From its beginning, the world has been filled with a succession of calamities over and above the unavoidable facts of illness, decrepitude and death.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Crises are challenges, not calamities.
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved-the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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