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• When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Calamity, First

• What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

  Earl Browder

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  Tags in National Interest, Calamity

• Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  William Davenant

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  Tags in Calamity, Perfect, Truly

• It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

  Robert Bly

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  Tags in Human, Surely, Calamity

• 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

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  Tags in Escapes, Elasticity, Frivolous, Better, Calamity

• A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

  Horace

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Hosts, Reveal, Calamity

• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Calamity, Gladstone, Dragged, Again, Difference

• 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

  Topics in Grief, Humanity, Nature

  Tags in Calamity, Innumerable, Man

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

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  Tags in Calamity