EVIL
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. IX. L. 278.
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night,
And maids who love the moon.
Moore—Fly Not Yet.
how grandly cometh Even,
Sitting on the mountain summit,
Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,
Watching o'er the dewy valleys,
Like a good king near his end.
D. M. Mttlock—A Stream's Singing.
One by one the flowers close,
Lily and dewy rose
Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
Christina G. Bxjssetti—Twilight Calm.
Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.
Schiller—The Assignation. St. 4. Lord
Lytton's trans.
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
Alexander Smith—A Life Drama. Sc. 8.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the
deep
Moans round with many voices.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Ulysses. L. 54.
was heavy with the even,
When she fit her glimmering tapers
Round the day's dead sanctities.
I laughed in the morning's eyes.
Francis Thompson—The Hound of Heaven.
L. 84.
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
Wordsworth—It is a Beauteous Evening.
EVIL
Evil events from evil causes spring.
Aristophanes.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Bailey—Prelude to Festus.
Evil beginning houres may end in good.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = The Knight of
Malta. Act II. Sc. 5.
Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans
un pire.
Often the fear of one evil leads us into a
worse.
BorLEAtr—L'Art PoUique. I. 64.
From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
Book of Common Prayer. Litany.
The world, the flesh, and the devil.
Book of Common Prayer. Litany. I
EVIL 239
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Bulwer-Lytton—Richelieu. Act III. Sc.
1. L. 49.
The authors of great evils know best how to
remove them.
Cato the Younger's Advice to the Senate
to put all power into Pompey's hands.
Plutarch—Life of Cato the Younger.
Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha,
facilmente se aprende el hacerle.
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
| author = Cervantes—Cohquio de los Perros.
Ex malis eligere minima oportere.
Of evils one should choose the least.
Cicero—De Officiis. Bk. III. 1. Same
idea in Thomas a Kempis. Imit Christi. 312.
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| text = <poem>Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; mveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it
grows older, it becomes stronger.
Cicero—Philippicce. V. 11.
Touch not; taste not; handle not.
Colossians. II. 21.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
/ Corinthians. XV. 33.
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Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont
extremes.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
CoRNErLLE—Horace. III. 4.
Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono
Le tre f aville che hanno i cori accesL
Three sparks—pride, envy, and avarice—
have been kindled in all hearts.
Dante—Inferno. VI. 74.
E duobus malis minimum eligendum.
Of two evils choose the least.
Erasmus—Adages .
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| text = <poem>Den Bbsen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
Goethe—Faust. I. 6. 174.
Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che
non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.
There is no evil in human affairs that has
not some good mingled with it.
Guicciardini—Storia d'ltalia.
He who does evil that good may come,
pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
J. C. and A. W. Hare—Chesses at Truth. P.
444.
But evil is wrought by want of Thought,
As well as want of Heart!
Hood—The Lady's Dream. St. 16.
