“To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!”
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Legem Tuam Dilexi, p. 47.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)
“Thinking is but an idle waste of thought,
And nought is everything and everything is nought.”
Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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