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English origin1887
English origin1887Danger past, God forgotten
Meaning: When crisis ends, people abandon the gratitude and piety that desperation inspired.
Origin: An old proverb about people who pray in a crisis and forget God once it passes. It appears in Robert Christy's Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (1887); an earlier source hasn't been traced.
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