“Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.”

— James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses

sc. iii. Compare: "The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust", Tate and Brady, Psalm cxxii.
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“Only the actions of the justSmell sweet and blossom in the dust.”

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“Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.”