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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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity."
"We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us."
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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
"The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds."
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