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The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.
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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
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A mind might ponder its thought for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
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Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.
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Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.