And now, amidst hard time, I saw beautiful silver lining of the cloud for real. I think God is trying to send me a message. He wants me to grasp the meaning of every cloud has a silver lining, perhaps.
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Friday, 9 December 2011
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
When someone comforted me with 'every cloud has a silver lining' a couple of months ago, I once wondered how does a silver lining look like and how it is used as a metaphor for optimism in the idiom.
And now, amidst hard time, I saw beautiful silver lining of the cloud for real. I think God is trying to send me a message. He wants me to grasp the meaning of every cloud has a silver lining, perhaps.
Ever since then, whenever I look at the clouds in the sky, intentionally or unintentionally, I will look for the silver lining, something beautiful to appreciate, something meaningful to remember.
And now, amidst hard time, I saw beautiful silver lining of the cloud for real. I think God is trying to send me a message. He wants me to grasp the meaning of every cloud has a silver lining, perhaps.
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Every cloud has a silver lining meaning
ReplyDeleteEvery bad situation has some great aspect to it. This adage is usually said as an encouragement to a man who is overwhelmed by some trouble and is unable to perceive any positive way forward.
ohn Milton authored the expression 'silver lining' in Comus: A Mask Displayed at Ludlow Castle, 1634
I see ye noticeably, and now accept
That he, the Preeminent Great, to whom all things sick
Are yet as slavish officers of vengeance,
Would send a glistering guardian, if require were
To keep my life and respect unassailed.
Was I misled, or did a sable cloud
Turn forward her silver lining on the night?
I didn't blunder; there does a sable cloud
Turn forward her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted woods.
'Clouds' and 'silver linings' were alluded to regularly in literature from that point onward, usually refering to Milton and much of the time alluding to them as Milton's clouds. It isn't until the days of the elevating language of Victoria's England that we start to hear the proverbial shape that we are presently familiar with - 'every cloud has a silver lining'. The principal event that is unequivocally communicating that thought comes in The Dublin Magazine, Volume 1, 1840, in a survey of the novel Marian; or, a Youthful Maid's Fortunes, by Mrs S. Hall, which was distributed in 1840:
As Katty Macane has it, "there's a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens in the event that we could just observe it."
'There's a silver lining to every cloud' was the shape that the maxim was usually communicated in the Victorian era. The at present utilized 'every cloud has a silver lining' appeared, in another literary audit, in 1849. The New month to month beauty assemblée, Volume 31 incorporate what implied to be a quotation from Mrs Hall's book - "Every cloud has a silver lining", however which didn't in fact appear in Marian, which just replicated Milton's original content.