John Greenleaf Whittier: Good

John Greenleaf Whittier was American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery. Explore interesting quotes on good.
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“Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Brown of Ossawatomie, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Evil

“Press bravely onward! — not in vain
Your generous trust in human kind;
The good which bloodshed could not gain
Your peaceful zeal shall find.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

To the Reformers of England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Peace

“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Beautiful, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late,
They touch the shining hills of day;
The evil cannot brook delay,
The good can well afford to wait.”

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282

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