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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
Bill W.
'No individual disaster is so devastating that a meaningful and noble result cannot arise from it.'
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Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.
Yasmin
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Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.
John Templeton
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
Grover Cleveland
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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
Voltaire
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There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.
Laozi
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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
John Lancaster Spalding
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The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
Publilius Syrus
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We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.
Swami Satchidananda
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus
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Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
Francine Rivers
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Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared
Sun Tzu
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
William Davenant
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marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
Marthe Bibesco
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
Samuel Johnson
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Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.
Chanakya
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly
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No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
Guru Nanak
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more
Bill Vaughan
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace
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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
Mark Twain
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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George Gissing
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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
H. G. Wells
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What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.
Og Mandino
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Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
George Will
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
Eric Hoffer
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Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper
Aftab Alam
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Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.
Boyle Roche
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Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
Rohinton Mistry
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The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'
Helen Keller