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Encouraged

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.




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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
• William Shakespeare


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