Emily

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young-adult‎ (297)
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picture-books‎ (150)
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2021‎ (138)
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2010‎ (103)

memoirs-and-essays‎ (96)
2012‎ (94)
2019‎ (90)
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2017‎ (81)
book-club‎ (79)
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2009‎ (70)

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2013‎ (54)
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caldecott‎ (44)
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2007‎ (33)

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2026‎ (18)
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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