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Kural 622

Kural 622 · Hopefulness in Trouble

வெள்ளத் தனைய இடும்பை அறிவுடையான் உள்ளத்தின் உள்ளக் கெடும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Though sorrow, like a flood, comes rolling on, When wise men's mind regards it,- it is gone.

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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