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That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
--
Ownership, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Mary Gardiner Brainard

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