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“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.”
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- Source:
- Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 23255641cbba4ca2fca2192e96d0afa5376a25b86d1a644ee5b4a203f23b6bf5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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