"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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Barbarossa (1754), Act V, Scene 3
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John Brown (essayist)
John Brown (5 November 1715 – 23 September 1766) was an English divine and author.
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