We are plain people from Tennessee, called here for a little time by a nation's calamity, and I hope too much will not be expected of us View quotes by Eliza Johnson
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. View quotes by Sydney Smith
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. View quotes by Frederick Douglass
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quotes by Joseph Addison
