William Thompson Russell

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    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
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