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"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."
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"These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity."
"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."
"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."
"We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
"Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried."
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
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