“Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
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