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Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

— 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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