Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

Do you believe that in every bad situation there is some good aspect to it. So when you have to encourage somebody who is plagued by problems or have to overcome some difficulties in life and they could not see anyway forward that is positive, you could then say to them - "Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining".

The origin to this saying was traced back a long way to a certain John Milton who coined the phrase in 1634.

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I see ye visibly, and now believe

That he, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill

Are but as slavish officers of vengeance,
Would send a glistering guardian, if need were

To keep my life and honour unassailed.

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud

Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
I did not err; there does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,

And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

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Clouds and silver linings in literature were often attributed to Milton. The English language was an uplifting language even during those Victorian days and "every cloud has a silver lining" eventually turned proverbial.

Katty Macane put it this way: "There is a silver lining to every cloud that sails about the heavens if we could only see it". "There is a silver lining to every cloud" was the form adopted, that the proverb was usually expressed in the Victorian era.

So take it from me that indeed every cloud has a silver lining. All things shall come to pass. You just need a little faith.