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By The Way

Verses, Fragments, and Notes [by William Allingham]

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That the human race is but a string of bubbles on the ceaseless fathomless River of Time, a fancy natural to some moods, can scarcely commend itself as a probable theory to any healthy soul.

You cannot shake off God, escape from God. You cannot find, or comprehend God. Nor is it conceivable that this should be otherwise.

Religions are of men, Religion is of God.

The greatest Truths are insusceptible of logical proof because they outgo human intelligence, though not human sensibility.

Well for him who can meet the exigencies of life and the day with calm energy, neither vainly opposing nor weakly giving way, expecting little and regretting less.