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I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

— Philip James Bailey Festus (1839)

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Festus (1839)

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

Festus (1839)

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Festus (1839)

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

Festus (1813)

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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