Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our pleasant earth below
Like the heaven above.

— Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney Little Things (1845)

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"Little Things" (1845) as quoted in Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson. These were the final words of the poem in the original publication, but some later versions include various additions. Variants: 'Help to make earth happy', 'Make this earth an Eden'.

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Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
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Speak gently to the erring:
For is it not enough
That innocence and peace have gone,
Without thy censure rough?

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Speak kindly to the erring;
Thou yet may'st lead them back,
With holy words and tones of love,
From misery's thorny track.
Forget not thou hast often sinned.
And sinful yet must be;
Deal gently with the erring one,
As God hath dealt with thee.

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Think gently of the erring:
Ye know not of the power
With which the dark temptation came
In some unguarded hour.
Ye may not know how earnestly
They struggled, or how well,
Until the hour of weakness came,
And sadly thus they fell.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
Changed by later compilers to "make this earth an Eden."

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Little deeds of kindness,Little words of love,Make our pleasant earth belowLike the heaven above.

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Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make our pleasant earth below
Like the heaven above.