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Francis Thompson Quotes: Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.
         

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.


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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.



Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.



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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.



The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.



Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.



Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.



The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.



Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.



A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.



The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.





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