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Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form—spiritual sensations,...more

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The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those that enveloped Letty: no troubles are for one momen...more

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the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

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Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop...more

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But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often have to be, but to indulge in sorrow is either not...more

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Past tears are present strength.

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...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, who will take on himself the third share of the figh...more

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The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies.