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calamities
«He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters»
«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»
Author: Henry MacKenzie
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Belief,
Goodness,
Wisdom
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borne, calamities, Supreme Being
«It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss»
«I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring»
Author: William Archer
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anthropomorphic, at present, calamities, enduring, fallacies, fallacy, harmless, infirmity, noxious, suggest
«A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Body,
Conscience,
Soul
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afflictions, befall, befalling, befalls, befell, calamities, countervail, preserves, serenity
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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arbitrary, befallen, befalls, calamities, deceivers, destroyers, foundering, founders, human origin, noted, origin, tenths, The Destroyers, The Founders, the union
«CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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calamities, good fortune, ordering, orderings
«Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. (Psalms 57:1)»
Author: Bible
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calamities
«One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasure as in avoiding calamities»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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calamities