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Thirukkural 621

Chapter 63: இடுக்கண் அழியாமை (Hopefulness in Trouble) · Wealth

Kural 621

இடுக்கண் வருங்கால் நகுக அதனை
அடுத்தூர்வது அஃதொப்ப தில்.

Itukkan Varungaal Nakuka Adhanai
Atuththoorvadhu Aqdhoppa Thil

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

Meaning

If troubles come, laugh; there is nothing like that, to press upon and drive away sorrow.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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