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'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.

— John Keble The Christian Year (1827)

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Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken, feels her present God again,
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away.

The Christian Year (1827)

When the shore is won at last,
Who will count the billows past?

The Christian Year (1827)

As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Lectures on Poetry 1832–1841 (1844)

The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask.

The Christian Year (1827)

But when eve's silent footfall steals
Along the eastern sky,
And one by one to earth reveals
Those purer fires on high.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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