"From evil comes good. Distrust is a stage to confidence. How has it proved in our interview? But your voice is husky; I have let you talk too much. You hold your cure; I leave you. But stay -- when I hear that is yours, I will not, like some I know, vainly make boasts; but, giving glory where all glory is due, say, with devout herb-doctor, Iapis in Virgil, when, in the unseen but efficacious presence of Venus, he with simples healed the wound of Aeneas: --
'This is no mortal work, no cure of mine,
Nor art's effect, but done by power divine.'"
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Confidence-Man - pg. 88
Labels: Herman Melville, Publius Vergilius Maro
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