Quotes by Thompson, Francis




Francis Thompson (December 18, 1859 - November 13, 1907) was an English poet born in Preston, Lancashire. His father was a doctor who had converted to Roman Catholicism, following his brother Edward Healy Thompson, a friend of Cardinal Manning..

"The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl."

Thompson, Francis on evil
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"Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven."

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"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."

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"For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own."

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"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain
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"An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."

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