“Call no faith false which e'er hath brought
Relief to any laden life,
Cessation to the pain of thought,
Refreshment mid the dust of strife.”

— Lewis Morris (poet)

Tolerance, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Welsh poet in the English language 1833–1907

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