Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

[295:4] I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.—Petrarch: Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life.

See Shakespeare, page [60].

[295:5] And learn the luxury of doing good.—Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 22. Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, book iii. Graves: The Epicure.

So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,

And thus the soldier arm'd with resolution

Told his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.

Richard III. (altered). Act ii. Sc. 1.

Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.