Barrels Quote by Francis Thompson

“There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.” quote by Francis Thompson — Download Open image

“There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.”

Francis Thompson

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“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the rose.”

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“ A Corymbus for Autumn How are the veins of thee, Autumn, laden? Umbered juices, And pulpèd oozes Pappy out of the cherry-bruises, Froth the veins of thee, wild, wild maiden. With hair that musters In globèd clusters, In tumbling clusters, like swarthy grapes, Round thy brow and thine ears o'ershaden; With the burning darkness of eyes like pansies, Like…

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But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still…

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

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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

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

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The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

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