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These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
With dear companions now passed out of sight,
Shall not be laid upon their graves.

— Lucy Larcom Poems (1869)

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All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die.

Poems (1869)

The noblest of men and friends has left the world, — Phillips Brooks.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

Eternal life and eternal death; what do these words mean?

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

Where he is, life must be. He lived only in realities here, and he is entering into the heart of them now.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of.

Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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