"The good are better made by ill, As……" — Samuel Rogers
"The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."
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26 Quotes by Samuel Rogers
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Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
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Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.
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Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
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Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural…
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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Then never less alone than when alone.
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When a new book is published, read an old one.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
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To know her was to love her.
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A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
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Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers…
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Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
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