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A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.
The fringes of eternity, —
God's sweeping garment-fold,
In that bright shred of glittering sea,
I reach out for and hold.

— 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.

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

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

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

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

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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)

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