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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."
John Brown / Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3.

Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin."
John Brown / An Essay on Satire, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Pope.

An Essay on Satire, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Pope.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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