He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

A diamond though set in horns is still a diamond and sparkles in purest gold.

True dignity is never gained by place and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

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.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

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.

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Books were safer than other people anyway.