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Francis Thompson Quotes


An English poet and ascetic.
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893. Francis Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907.

Here are some famous quotes by Francis Thompson.

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

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In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

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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.