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Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he
moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium,
and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him,
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Francis Thompson: Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be
something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a
spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in
love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little
that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn
pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into
loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy
godmother in its own soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to count
yourself the king of infinite space; it isTo see a world in a grain of
sand,And a Heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your
hand,And eternity in an hour;it is to know not as yet that you are
under sentence of life, nor petition that it be commuted into death.
#Uncategorised
Francis Thompson:In attempts to improve your character,
know what is in your power and what is beyond it. #Character
Francis Thompson: Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is
not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish
in our own. #Pain
Francis Thompson:The hills look over on the South,
And Southward dreams the sea;
And with the sea-breeze hand in hand,
Came innocence and she.
#Dreams
Francis Thompson: The devil doesn't know how to sing, only
how to howl. #Devil
Francis Thompson: Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
#Heaven
Francis Thompson: 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. #Immortality
Francis Thompson: For we are born in other's pain, and perish
in our own. #Pain
Francis Thompson: An atheist is a man who believes himself
an accident. #Atheism
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