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Calamity Quotes
Old wisdom on meeting misfortune without flinching.
These lines share a common instruction: don't run from calamity, meet it directly and outlast it through endurance. One even claims that dropping superstition removes the fear of disaster entirely, a bold idea worth pairing with Advice.
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
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These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
- Learning
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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