“God is and all is well.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

My Birthday', reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Pippa Passes.

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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892

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