“ Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
- 186
“ To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune…to lose both seems like carelessness. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ”
- Nicholas Rowe- Copy
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“ All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. ”
- John P. Roche- Copy
- 322
“ There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
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“ The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ”
- Benjamin Mays- Copy
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“ To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred. ”
- Pierre Corneille- Copy
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“ There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes. ”
- Emanuel Swedenborg- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 102
“ I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through. ”
- Michael Palin- Copy
- 548
“ Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ”
- William Davenant- Copy
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“ Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. ”
- Edward Teller- Copy
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“ Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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