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Quote#Wisdom

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe

Quote byJohn Pomfret · 1667–1702

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Compare: " Bless the hand that gave the blow", John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act ii. Sc. 1..

English (original)

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow.

— John Pomfret

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