Good is mixed with evil, and evil with good.

His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]

With affection's warm, intense, refined;
She mixed such calm and holy strength of mind.
That, like heaven's image in the smiling brook,
Celestial peace was pictured in her look. [ Campbell ]

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. [ Roscommon ]

The natural religion of the pagan philosophers was mixed with fancies and dreams. [ Saurin ]

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. [ Thoreau ]

Sturdy swains, in clean array, for rustic dance prepare, mixed with the buxom damsels hand in hand. [ John Phillips ]

Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]

In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. [ Lindley Murray ]

All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable enough to content himself with a pure and sensible religion, worthy of the Deity. [ Voltaire ]

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. [ George Eliot ]

A companion that feasts the company with wit and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. [ Izaak Walton ]

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. [ Ruskin ]