The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
-- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
-- Jacqueline, Stanza 3
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
-- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
-- Jacqueline, Stanza 3
Related:
- She was good as she was fair,
None--none on earth above her!
As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her.... - To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. -- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) -- Paestum
- An ill agreement is better than a good judgement. -- Proverb
- Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed
or crushed.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity... - God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman. ADELA ROGERS St. JOHN
- Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, liv, Stanza 1... - Those that he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves,--not dead, but gone before,--
He gathers round him.
-- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) -- Human Life... - Persistently ill, and still does not die.
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), All 's Well that Ends Well -- Act iv, Sc. 3...
