“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German novelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 597.
“They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.”
The Sayings of Rabia. iv.
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P. 457.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 444.
