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Life is something, while the senses heed The spirit’s call; Life is nothing, when our grosser need Engulfs it all.
Life is something, while the senses heed The spirit’s call; Life is nothing, when our grosser need Engulfs it all.
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- Julia Ward Howe
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 380; printed byline: Julia Ward Howe; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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