Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
Interpretation
Good outcomes cannot arise from evil actions, as happiness cannot logically emerge from a negative start.
This quote by Charles Dickens reflects on the relationship between beginnings and outcomes, suggesting that a negative or evil origin will not produce a positive or good result. It highlights the inherent connection between the nature of an event's start and its eventual conclusion, emphasizing that happiness and goodness cannot stem from unhappy beginnings marked by evil.
In practice
A speaker at a community event discussing the importance of ethical choices might use this quote to illustrate their point.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
There is no reality except the one contained within us.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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