(Mephistopheles, in Faust.)
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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I have no answer, for myself or thee,
Save that I learned beside my mother's knee:
"All is of God that is, and is to be;
And God is good." Let this suffice us still,
Resting in childlike trust upon his will
Who moves to his great ends unthwarted by the ill.
—John Greenleaf Whittier.