Calamity Quotes
Old wisdom on meeting misfortune without flinching.
These lines share a common instruction: don't run from calamity, meet it directly and outlast it through endurance. One even claims that dropping superstition removes the fear of disaster entirely, a bold idea worth pairing with Advice.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
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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.
Advice Quotes
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
Avoid Quotes
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
Away Quotes
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.
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.
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
