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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
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Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.
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Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
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When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.
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Lucy Larcom
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Born:
March 5, 1824
Died:
April 17, 1893
(aged 69)
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Lucy Larcom was an American poet and author.
Known for:
A New England girlhood (1889)
An idyl of work (1875)
Childhood songs (1873)
Landscape in American poetry (1879)
As it is in heaven (1891)
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