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The world is a looking glass, Wherein ourselves are shown,— Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer, Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,— To every soul its own. We cannot change the world a whit, Only ourselves, who look in it.
The world is a looking glass, Wherein ourselves are shown,— Kindness for kindness, cheer for cheer, Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear,— To every soul its own. We cannot change the world a whit, Only ourselves, who look in it.
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- Susan Coolidge
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 559; printed byline: Susan Coolidge; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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