Calamity

(190 votes)   Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(101 votes)   Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(95 votes)   Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(90 votes)   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

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(80 votes)   Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Beaumont and Fletcher

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