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“But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.”

Ifs Use Hands Might America Greater Honest Fool Thirds Calamity Breach English History

Author:James G. Frazer

“No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.”

People Happens Christian Taken Clear Greater Pure Witness Grants Calamity Mischief Descendants

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.”

Men Way Humans Hope Enemy Break Greater Failing Comfort Devil Hardest Miserable Human Life Necks Yield Smooth Calamity Beam Presumptuous

Author:Owen Feltham

“There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.”

People Has Beens Done Greater Strive Despite Compromise Former Permanent Lasting Ancestor Recalls Calamity Discord

Author:Albert Einstein

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.”

Greater Misfortunes Calamity Me Alone

Author:Boyle Roche

“The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.”

Men Running Order Greater Creating Hundred Inferiors Intrigue Calamity

Author:Wang Yangming

“Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.”

Love Is Greater Calamity

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez