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Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan,
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.

— Francis Thompson Daisy (1893)

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An Atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

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

That men who find Christianity too hard of belief should come to believe in Paganism, sounds, I know, like an absurdity. But nothing is so incalculable as the credulity of incredulity.

Anchorite, who didst dwell
With all the world for cell!

Whose form is as a grove
Hushed with the cooing of an unseen dove.

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