Bear calamities with meekness. [ Euripides ]

Calamity was ordained for man. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Calamity is man's true touchstone. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Calamity is the test of integrity. [ Richardson ]

There is no calamity like ignorance. [ Richter ]

Affliction is enamored of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind. [ Proverb ]

Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn,
Is that a matter to make me fret?
That a calamity hard to be borne? [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]

It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]

Prosperity takes no counsel and fears no calamity. [ Proverb ]

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. [ Publius Syrus ]

Poverty is the greatest calamity, riches the highest good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places. [ Bossuet ]

There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress. [ Emerson ]

How wisely fate ordained for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass.
Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. [ Davenant ]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. [ Colton ]

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

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. [ Thackeray ]

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case, if it were not for God? [ Tillotson ]

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. [ Sydney Smith ]

Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over doth endure the pains of evil destiny. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger. [ Dr. Johnson ]

'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. [ Johnson ]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. [ Colton ]

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]

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. [ Sir Walter Scott ]