<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371525" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Life Has Mixed Fortunes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If not for fools, how can some be called wise? <br>If not for blunders, how can learning thrive? <br>If not for cowards, brave men would be mice; <br>If not for honey-bees, where is the hive? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>If not for evil, what use would be good? <br>If not for vices, where would be virtues? <br>If not for money, where would be sainthood? <br>If not for worldliness, God needn't review.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A corrupt world makes honest folk steadfast; <br>An unfair world sets good men fight a cause; <br>A rainy day comes from a sky o'er-cast; <br>Our food must have both bread and to dip, sauce.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If not for darkness, why should man need light? <br> If not for devils, men wouldn't need God's might,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=371525" data-title="Sonnet: Life Has Mixed Fortunes de John Celes" data-description="If not for fools, how can some be called wise? If not for blunders, how can learning thrive? If not for cowards, brave men would be mice; If not for honey-bees, where is the hive? If not for evil, what use would be good? If not for vices, w..."></div> </div> </div>

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