<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "This too shall pass" (Persian: Persian: این نیز بگذرد ‎ ‎, īn nīz bogzarad) is originally a Persian adage reflecting on the evanescence, or ephemerality, of the human condition . The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words . The general sentiment is often expressed in wisdom literature throughout history and across cultures . It also appears in a collection of tales by the English poet Edward Fitzgerald in the early 19th century . It was also notably employed in a speech by Abraham Lincoln before he became the sixteenth President of the United States . Fitzgerald's usage of the phrase is in the context of a retelling of a Persian fable . Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which has the ability to make the happy man sad and the sad man happy . </P> <P> An early English citation of "this too shall pass" appears in 1848: </P>

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