Calamities
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Calamities Quotations
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
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
You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
Mario Cuomo
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Virgil
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.
John Coleman
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteus
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
Crises are challenges, not calamities.
Guy Verhofstadt
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