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after a storm comes a calm

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A period of anger or trouble is usually followed by a period of relative peace: "After a storm comes a calm. Wearied with a former blustering they began now to repose themselves in a sad silence" (Thomas Fuller, Church History of Britain, 1655). The proverb was first recorded in this form in 1582, but the sentiment it expresses is found in writing more than 200 years earlier. It has given rise to the cliché the calm before the storm, which reverses the order of things and describes a period of peace before an upheaval.

Proverbs expressing similar meaning: the darkest hour is just before dawn; when things are at the worst they begin to mend.

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