The Living Kural
DECODE · KURAL 621

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Hopefulness in Trouble · Wealth & public life

இடுக்கண் வருங்கால் நகுக அதனை அடுத்தூர்வது அஃதொப்ப தில்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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இடுக்கண் வருங்கால் நகுக அதனை அடுத்தூர்வது அஃதொப்ப தில்.

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Smile, with patient, hopeful heart, in troublous hour; Meet and so vanquish grief; nothing hath equal power.

G. U. Pope, 1886 · Public domain