“An ill wind that blows no man to good.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
“What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain,
When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?”
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
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