What good I see humbly I seek to do,
And live obedient to the law, in trust
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
_The Light of Asia_. SIR E. ARNOLD.
There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound.
_Abt Vogler, IX_. R. BROWNING.
Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood,
He tried the luxury of doing good.
_Tales of the Hall, Bk. III_. G. CRABBE.
'T is well said again;
And 't is a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
_King Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2_. SHAKESPEARE.
Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
_Juvenal, Satire X_. J. DRYDEN.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!
_Paradise Lost, Bk. V_. MILTON.