“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
“Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.”
Variant: Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
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