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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow then it will see itself within his heart.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
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