1941. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	1941
AUTHOR:	Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:	Virtue is like precious odours,—most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. 1
ATTRIBUTION:	Of Adversity.

Note 1.
As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Captivity, act i.

The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Samuel Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 3. [back]

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