Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

About Leigh Hunt

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James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.

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Colors are the smiles of nature.

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Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

—King Edward the Third

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—Joseph Conrad

A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

—John Stuart Mill

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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