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Hawthorne on the Power of Love and Passion

October 1, 2019 pwm1

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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, which it overflows upon the outward world.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne (by Mathew Brady; Public Domain)

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