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Aristophanes: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Evil beginning houres may end in good.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — The Knight of Malta. Act II. Sc. 5.

It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons.— BOVEE — Summaries of Thought.

Compensation. None are all evil.— BYRON — The Corsair. Canto I. St. 12.

He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven. J. C. and A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. P. 444. But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart!— HOOD — The Lady's Dream. St. 16.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.— S. LOWELL — Prometheus. L. 263.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.— BULWER-LYTTON — Richelieu. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 49.

And out of good still to find means of evil. น.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 165.

Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun: Better not do the deed, than weep it done.— PRIOR — Henry and Emma. L. 308.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.— RUSKIN — Stones of Venice. Vol. I. Ch. II.

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 334.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 80. The world is grown so bad That wrens make prey where eagles dare not. perch.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 69.

So far as any one shuns evils, so far he does good. aa.— SWEDENBORG — Doctrine of Life. 21.