“God reigneth. All is well.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hymn at the Funeral Services of Charles Sumner; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare Browning, Pippa Passes: "God's in his heaven— All's right with the world".

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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