I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

William Shakespeare · King Henry IV, Part II, V, v

We are in God’s hand.

William Shakespeare · King Henry V (1598–1599), III, vi

Truth hath a quiet breast.

William Shakespeare · King Richard II (1595), I, iii

Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), V, i This thing of darkness I

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Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · The source reads: “Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.” · From the poem "The Rainy Day"; the next line is "some days must be dark and dreary."

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.

John McCrae · In Flanders Fields (1915), st. 1

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

The Bible · Romans 8:22

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“I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”

“We are in God’s hand.”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that’s gone.”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.”

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”