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John Pomfret: Frasi in inglese
“Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom most he likes.”
Verses to his Friend under Affliction.
“We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.”
Reason: A Poem, 1700.
“We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.”
Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Compare: " Bless the hand that gave the blow", John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (1681), Act ii. Sc. 1.
