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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
Crises are challenges, not calamities.
Guy Verhofstadt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
Beilby Porteus
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Horace
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce 
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer
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