| Author |
Quotes |
| Ambrose Bierce | Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. |
| Beilby Porteus | He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over. |
| Benjamin E Mays | It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. |
| Bishop Porteous | He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. |
| Frederick Douglass | A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. |
| Henry MacKenzie | 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. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 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. |
| Saiom Shriver | The trees of life randomly grow but the graves of Arlington are set in rows. |
| Samuel Richardson | Calamity is the test of integrity. |
| Seneca | Calamity is virtue's opportunity. |
| Sydney Smith | Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. |
| William Davenant | Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. |
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