“There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.”

—  Robert Browning

Abt Vogler, ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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