Francis Thompson Quotes (16 Quotes)


    The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine, Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

    Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be

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

    In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.




    The storm-damaged areas will recover much quicker if the regions that are already up and running do better and benefit from revitalization, ... It's more important than ever before that the rest of the state -- Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and the agriculture areas -- can thrive so as to lift up the rest of the state.

    She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.

    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.


    The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.

    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.

    Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet. And all the things are made young with young desires.


    I do not believe that Nature has a heart and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face.



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