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Calamity
A little learning, indeed,
may be a dangerous thing,
but the want of learning is
a calamity to any people.
?Frederick Douglass
Calamities are of two kinds:
misfortune to ourselves,
and good fortune to others.
?Ambrose Bierce
Every calamity is a spur
and valuable hint.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein
we truly see and know ourselves.
?William Davenant
Have the courage to be ignorant
of a great number of things,
in order to avoid the calamity of
being ignorant of everything.
?Sydney Smith
It is only from the belief of
the goodness and wisdom
of a supreme being, that
our calamities can be
borne in the manner
which becomes a man.
?Henry MacKenzie
It isn't a calamity to die
with dreams unfulfilled, but it
is a calamity not to dream.
?Benjamin E. Mays
He who foresees calamities,
suffers them twice over.
?Bishop Porteous
The compensations of calamity
are made apparent to the
understanding also, after
long intervals of time.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calamity is the test of integrity.
?Samuel Richardson
These times of ours are serious
and full of calamity, but
all times are essentially alike. As
soon as there is life there is danger.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
