“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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