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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Calamity

Another ill accident is drought, and the spindling of the corn; insomuch as the word calamity was first derived from calamus [stalk] when the corn could not get out of the stalk.

For secret calumny, or the arrow flying in the dark, there is no public punishment left but what a good writer inflicts.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do in such a case, if it were not for God?

Much more should the consideration of this pattern arm us with patience against ordinary calamities; especially if we consider His example with this advantage, that though His sufferings were wholly undeserved, and not for Himself but for us, yet He bore them patiently.