“He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over”
Beilby Porteus
“When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped”
Samuel Johnson
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
Aristotle
“The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for”
Mark Twain
“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters”
Daniel Defoe
