“Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.”
Roaming in Thought, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892Related quotes
“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sheridan.htm
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"She's Dead?"
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