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Brotherhood

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

God, what a world, if men in street and mart,
Felt that same kinship of the human heart,
Which makes them, in the face of fire and flood,
Rise to the meaning of True Brotherhood.




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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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