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