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Aphorisms of the wise & good (1862)

Bessent, Thomas, Stanesby, Samuel · London : Griffith & Farran, corner of St. Paul's Chruch · leaf 40

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The good are better made by ill : — As odours crush'd are sweeter still ! Rogers. It is not the suffering, but the cause, that makes the martyr. Henry. As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. Burton. Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in…

Illumination of books and manuscripts · Aphorisms and apothegms · Maxims · Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc · Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens · Conduct of life

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