A Quote by Samuel Rogers

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Samuel Rogers

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Better Crushed Good Ill Made Still Sweeter

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Samuel Rogers
English - Poet
July 30, 1763 - December 18, 1855

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Francis Bacon

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

George Herbert

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

A. E. Housman

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Ben Jonson

I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she was very glad that he still had his face pressed into his pillow and the other boys were still in Noah's room. "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.

Maggie Stiefvater

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

Benjamin Franklin

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

Patrick Henry

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

Barack Obama

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

George Herbert

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear….Nobody's music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.

John Mayer

I'm not saying that things now aren't better for black people. Thank God they're definitely better, but some things are still the same. "Better" is not good enough - it's not. Especially when "better" still means my life is at risk.

Titus Kaphar

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

Khalil Gibran

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.