A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. Human Life (1819)
Samuel Rogers
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,-- Sweet is pleasure after pain. Line 58.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail. The Pleasures of Memory. Part ii. i.
Samuel Rogers