...flowers, And rest to us is given In the cool soft evening hours. Mrs. Hemans. 2"6 EVIL. EVIL. THERE is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. Shakspere. For unstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil. Shakspere. The devil can cite scripture...

...preserved at the very core of his conception of evil an awareness of dynamism and power: for There is a soul of goodness in things evil Would men observingly distil it out. Henry V, rv. i. 4 I am insisting on the 'soul of goodness', not merely in the reaction that evil provokes,...

...when, before his troops on the morning of Agincourt, he breathes an infectious selfconfidence: There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out; For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful and good husbandry. Besides,...

...but sane he cannot be exempt from his moral obligations. Wrote the ' thousand-souled,' — " There is some soul of goodness in things evil Would men observingly distil it out." If we fail in winning the good, is it not because we hesitate to attempt the struggle, or lack skill...

...'tis true that we are in great danger; The greater therefore should our courage be. . . . There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out. . . . Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself. Shakespeare, King...

...danger: The greater therefore should our courage be. Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty! There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out; For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful, and good husbandry. Besides,...

...optimalen Ausnutzung der Zeit, dh den Gedanken von Schleif als verschwendeter Zeit verwendet: There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out For our bad neighbour niakes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful and good husbandry. (Henry...

...greater therefore should our courage be. — Good morrow, brother Bedford. — God Almighty! There is hisbe, is the better; For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers, Which is both healthful and good husbandry: Besides,...

...slim reeds. To prove that the keynote in Shakespeare was optimistic, Munger cited Henry V: "There is some soul of goodness in things evil / would men observingly distil it out." Two years later, Dinsmore in his 1906 work, Atonement in Literature and Life, repeatedly referred to...

...possible source of edification. "God Almighty!" Harry exclaims on the morning of Agincourt, "There is some soul of goodness in things evil,/ Would men observingly distil it out" (4. 1.3— 5). The immediate example Harry has in mind is his enemy, a "bad neighbor" who "makes us...