Affliction, John Brown
Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days.
- John Brown, Barbarossa (1754), Act V, Scene 3.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Affliction
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days.
- John Brown, Barbarossa (1754), Act V, Scene 3.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Affliction
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