<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366136" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Against Which To Measure</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One can’t know happiness<br>Unless one knows about sadness<br>One can’t know about pleasure<br>Without knowing of pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have to have something <br>Against which to measure<br>Like the dryness of dust measured<br>Against cool rivulets of rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without the presence of evil<br>Would we know what is good<br>To not know of cruelty<br>Would we know what we should</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Knowing only of kindness<br>Of naught but good things<br>Enjoy bees sweet honey…<br>Yet not know of bee’s stings</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would you know what you had<br>Be it travails or treasure<br>No…not without experience …<br>Against which to measure</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366136" data-title="Against Which To Measure de David Whalen" data-description="One can’t know happiness Unless one knows about sadness One can’t know about pleasure Without knowing of pain You have to have something Against which to measure Like the dryness of dust measured Against cool rivulets of rain Without the pr..."></div> </div> </div>

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