It may do what it can, not merely to relieve the unfortunate in their extremity, but to prevent their coming to extremity, to arrest, if possible, their decline, to check or soften the trade fluctuations that often swamp them, and to facilitate their self-recovery; but, when it goes on to suppress or equalize the operation of fortune, it destroys the good with the evil, and even if it removed the tares, would find it had only spoiled the harvest of wheat.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Carlyle reminds his opponent of that other parable, according to which it was an enemy who surreptitiously sowed the tares of evil, and these grow because no one can pull them out.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Let us not destroy the good grain with the tares.
"Letters of Madam Guyon"
P. L. Upham