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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.
the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.
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?
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
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.
The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.
Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
Aping urbanity,
Oozing with vanity,
Plump as a manatee,
Faking humanity,
Intellectual inanity,
Journalistic calamity,
Fox Noise insanity,
You're a profanity,
Hannity.
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
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 .
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.
Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.
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.
There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.