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The unity of God preserves a unity in men--that is, a perpetual sympathy between man and man--which sympathy we must be subject to, if not in our joys, yet in our griefs.

Elizabeth Barrett Browningverified·The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1 (ed. Frederic G. Kenyon)·January 23, 1837

If sorrow in its reaction makes us think of our friends, let my name come among the list of yours to you, and with it let the thought come that I am not the coldest and least sincere.

Elizabeth Barrett Browningverified·The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1 (ed. Frederic G. Kenyon)·circa 1845