And e’en in this great throe of pain called Life
I find a rapture linked with each despair,
Well worth the price of anguish. I detect
More good than evil in humanity.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow better as the world grows old.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist

Poem (1888), “Optimism,” ll. 9-14, Poems of Pleasure
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