“Everything is sweetened by risk.”
"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)
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Scottish poet and essayist 1829–1867Related quotes
“I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.”
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Eight, A New Constitution, p. 189
“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself:
He who wants everything must risk very little.”
Un monarque a souvent des lois à s'imposer;
Et qui veut pouvoir tout ne doit pas tout oser.
Tite, act IV, scene v.
Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)
Foreword to My Dangerous Desire: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh, pg. xii.
Context: I want to write a great book — I want to make a difference — I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.
A 1989 interview with Granta magazine founder Bill Buford. Reprinted in Adbusters Magazine #71.
