#amity

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

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Samuel Johnson

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Calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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How we need another soul to cling to. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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

— William Davenant

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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. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

— Frederick Leboyer

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

— Philip Massinger

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We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity. ↗

— Li Peng

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