John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Faith, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

• God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Dark, Evil

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.201

• When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, War, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.411

• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Passion, Evil

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