Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.'
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'Be ye Good Boys, go seek for Heav'en, come pay the priest that holds the key;' So spake, and speaks, and aye shall speak the last to enter Heaven, - he.
Permalink to quote #26 Words, words that gender things! The soul is a new-comer on the scene; Sufficeth not the breath of Life to work the matter-born machine? The race of Be'ing fro…
Permalink to quote #28 With God's foreknowledge man's free will! what monster-growth of human brain, What powers of light shall ever pierce this puzzle dense with words inane?
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