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| Preface to New, Enlarged Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Around the Corner | |
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| Success | |
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| Why Do I Love You? | |
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| The Dark Candle | |
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| A Friend | |
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| What Is Youth? | |
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| Should You Go First | |
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| The Tone of Voice | |
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| Treasures | |
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| Tell Her So | |
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| Happiness | |
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| Goodnight (For Husbands and Wives) | |
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| The Little Chap Who Follows Me | |
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| How Do I Love Thee? | |
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| The Story of Life | |
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| Alabaster Boxes | |
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| The Touch of the Master's Hand | |
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| On Children | |
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| The Bar | |
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| Your House | |
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| The Happiest Season | |
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| Instructions of King Cormac | |
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| At Set of Sun | |
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| A Prayer Found in Chester Cathedral | |
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| The Sculptor | |
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| Dream House | |
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| The World Needs | |
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| Wide Walls | |
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| Miss You | |
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| The Meaning of a Letter | |
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| Bankrupt | |
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| A Bag of Tools | |
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| A Last Will | |
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| You Mustn't Quit | |
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| Home Is Where There's One to Love Us | |
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| Success | |
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| Don't Give Up | |
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| It Might Have Been Worse | |
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| The Pendulum | |
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| Mistakes | |
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| To a New Daughter-in-Law | |
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| Take the World as It Is, selection | |
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| A Birthday Wish | |
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| Sunshine and Music | |
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| That's Success! | |
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| Friendship | |
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| The Dawn | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| A Builder's Lesson, selection | |
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| Mother's Hands | |
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| A Smile | |
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| The Whole Duty of a Poem | |
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| God the Artist | |
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| Who Does Not Love True Poetry | |
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| Open Your Eyes | |
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| Blind | |
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| Fulfillment | |
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| How Old Are You? | |
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| Little Words | |
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| Help Me Today | |
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| Thinking Happiness | |
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| A Good Creed | |
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| It's Simply Great | |
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| Outwitted | |
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| Prayer of an Unemployed Man | |
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| The Monk and the Peasant | |
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| The Sinner | |
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| Auction Sale--Household Furnishings | |
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| Aloha Oe | |
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| Be Kind | |
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| Mediation No. 4891 | |
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| Any Husband or Wife | |
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| Let Me Be a Giver | |
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| Four Things | |
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| I Have Found Such Joy | |
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| Rendezvous | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| The Right Kind of People | |
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| Friendship | |
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| To Husband and Wife | |
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| If You Made Gentler the Churlish World | |
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| Forgiven | |
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| My Wage | |
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| Good-by | |
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| The House of Pride | |
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| Ol' Clothes | |
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| Morning Prayer | |
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| Equipment | |
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| Pippa Passes, selection | |
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| Prayer for This House | |
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| No Friend Like Music | |
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| Thank You, God | |
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| My Creed | |
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| Beauty as a Shield | |
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| Together | |
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| Toys | |
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| A Prayer | |
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| Shabby Old Dad | |
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| A Bargain Sale | |
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| Mediation No. 11087 | |
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| The Old Mother | |
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| The Riddle | |
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| The Lesson of the Water Mill | |
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| Weighing the Baby | |
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| Old Mothers | |
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| Courtesy | |
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| To My Son | |
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| A Bridge Instead of a Wall | |
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| For Sale or Rent | |
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| I Saw Two Clouds at Morning | |
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| You Never Can Tell | |
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| For One Lately Bereft | |
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| I Ponder on Life | |
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| The Clown | |
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| Shall I Complain? | |
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| The Friend Who Just Stands | |
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| Mediation No. 10871 | |
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| Seeds of Kindness | |
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| A Woman's Question | |
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| Blind | |
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| Wishes | |
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| On City Streets | |
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| Accept My Full Heart's Thanks | |
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| The Dreaded Task | |
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| What Makes a Home? | |
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| Beyond the Profit of Today | |
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| Courage to Live | |
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| Mediation No. 908 | |
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| Start Where You Stand | |
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| He Lived a Life, selection | |
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| Temper | |
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| Essay on Man | |
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| Erasers | |
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| The New Leaf | |
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| This Prayer I Make | |
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| On Work | |
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| The Human Touch | |
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| Forget Thee?, selection | |
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| Many Things | |
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| There Is a Mystic Borderland | |
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| Will | |
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| A Smile | |
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| From the Florence Nightingale Pledge | |
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| To Be a Nurse | |
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| This, Too, Shall Pass Away | |
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| 'Tis a Little Journey | |
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| Today | |
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| Nightfall | |
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| Good Thoughts | |
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| New Friends and Old Friends | |
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| If I Knew You and You Knew Me | |
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| High Resolve | |
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| A Morning Prayer | |
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| The Broken Sword | |
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| Lest Thou Forget | |
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| On File | |
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| The Family | |
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| The Most Vital Thing in Life | |
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| Mediation No. 11009 | |
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| Better Than Gold | |
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| The Door-Bell | |
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| Disillusion | |
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| The Night Has a Thousand Eyes | |
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| There Is a Mystery in Human Hearts | |
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| One Year to Live | |
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| True Love | |
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| What Shall I Do? from "Absence" | |
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| Dusk | |
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| Parting | |
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| Giving and Forgiving | |
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| If I Can Stop One Heart from breaking | |
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| Tribute on the Passing of a Very Real Person | |
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| Those We Love the Best | |
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| Somewhere | |
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| Faith | |
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| Prayer for Strength | |
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| The Pessimist | |
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| How to Forget | |
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| Life's Mirror | |
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| Are You There? | |
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| Song | |
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| The Anvil--God's Word | |
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| Crim and Punishment | |
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| The Shut-in | |
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| Worth While | |
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| When a Man Turns Homeward | |
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| Mediation No. 1894 | |
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| Two Kinds of People | |
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| The Sin of Omission | |
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| At a Window | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Pain | |
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| Hymn | |
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| First Impressions | |
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| This Is Your Hour | |
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| Good in Everything, selection | |
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| The Old Year | |
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| The New Year | |
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| Fate | |
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| Patience with the Living | |
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| A Day | |
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| Prayer of Any Husband | |
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| Success | |
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| Speak Gently | |
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| Home | |
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| Life's Made Up of Little Things | |
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| Prayer | |
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| We Have Lived and Loved Together | |
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| Your Neighbor | |
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| The Beggar | |
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| Good-by | |
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| The Little Things | |
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| Silence | |
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| The Hate and the Love of the World | |
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| Who Are My People? | |
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| Praise | |
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| Old Houses | |
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| In Your Absence | |
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| Little Things | |
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| Quiet Days | |
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| The Ship That Sails | |
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| The Blind Men and the Elephant | |
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| For One Who Is Serene | |
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| Faith | |
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| Old Houses | |
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| Thanksgiving | |
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| Mediation No. 2053 | |
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| The Kindly Neighbor | |
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| Harmony | |
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| Let Us Have Peace | |
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| The Only Way to Have a Friend | |
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| The Touch of Human Hands | |
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| Atonement | |
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| Drop a Pebble in the Water | |
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| Vision | |
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| Rabbi Ben Ezra, selection | |
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| Mediation No. 13057 | |
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| Wedding Anniversary | |
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| John Anderson, My Jo | |
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| As We Grow Older | |
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| Ideals | |
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| Roof-Tops | |
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| Learn to Wait | |
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| Faith for Tomorrow | |
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| God Be with You | |
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| The Philosopher | |
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| Who Loves the Rain | |
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| Selfishness | |
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| Endurance | |
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| Talk Happiness | |
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| A Poem for Christmas | |
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| I Think that God Is Proud | |
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| Mediation No. 1313 | |
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| The Closed Door | |
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| One Thing at a Time | |
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| Hungering Hearts | |
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| The Joy of Incompleteness | |
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| Firm Belief | |
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| Barter | |
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| Midwinter | |
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| The Quiet Life | |
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| Before It Is Too Late | |
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| I Never Knew a Night So Black | |
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| Worries | |
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| True Happiness | |
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| Friendship | |
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| Prayer for Shut-ins | |
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| Salutation to the Dawn | |
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| Three Gates of Gold | |
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| Unsubdued | |
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| There Is a Loneliness | |
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| Life | |
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| Whatever Is--Is Best | |
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| The Boomerang | |
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| Mediation No. 12672 | |
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| Compensation | |
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| Work | |
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| To Chloe, selection | |
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| The Common Tasks | |
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| A Vow for New Year's | |
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| Mother | |
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| Rest | |
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| Beatitudes for a Housewife | |
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| The Celestial Surgeon | |
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| The Little Child's Faith | |
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| Heart Wounds | |
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| Life's Lesson | |
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| The Bridge-Builder | |
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| It Can Be Done | |
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| Next Year | |
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| A Gentle Word | |
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| Little Things | |
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| Too Late | |
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| Communion | |
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| Because You Care | |
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| Retaliation | |
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| Casual Meeting | |
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| Understanding | |
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| Watch Yourself Go By | |
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| The Greater Gift | |
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| Only a Little Thing | |
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| The Five Best Doctors | |
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| One of Us Two | |
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| Before and After Marriage | |
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| My Neighbor's Roses | |
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| My Neighbor's Reply | |
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| Be Hopeful | |
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| A Prayer for Broken Little Families | |
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| The Old Woman | |
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| Decision | |
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| Minutes of Gold | |
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| Prayer for a Day's Walk | |
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| The Heart's Anchor | |
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| Away | |
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| You Tell on Yourself | |
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| The Preacher's Mistake | |
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| The Gift | |
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| Mediation No. 1458 | |
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| Life | |
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| Our Own | |
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| Alone | |
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| Then Laugh | |
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| At the Door | |
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| Good Night! Good Night! | |
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| Home | |
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| To the New Owner | |
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| God Bless You | |
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| Is It a Dream? | |
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| The Whirlpool | |
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| There Is Always a Place for You | |
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| Time's Hand Is Kind | |
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| The Blind Man | |
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| To Give One's Life | |
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| Resolve | |
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| Confide in a Friend | |
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| A Prayer for Every Day | |
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| Art Thou Lonely? | |
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| What Is Good? | |
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| Definition | |
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| The Sincere Man | |
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| If You Had a Friend | |
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| Eternal Values | |
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| Remembrance | |
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| The Voice of God | |
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| Good-bye | |
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| "No!" | |
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| Retribution, selection | |
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| The Lonely Dog | |
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| Beyond the Grave | |
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| Hospital | |
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| So Live, from "Thanatopsis" | |
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| Life Owes Me Nothing | |
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| Mother | |
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| A Thankful Heart | |
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| Love's Philosophy | |
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| Plea for Tolerance | |
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| The Arrow and the Song | |
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| Worry | |
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| Today | |
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| God's Ways Are Strange | |
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| Cloak of Laughter | |
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| If Lincoln Should Return | |
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| What the King Has | |
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| Husband and Wife | |
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| A Friend | |
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| What's in It for Me? | |
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| Take Time to Live | |
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| For a New Home | |
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| The Human Heart | |
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| Patty-Poem | |
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| Thanks Be to God | |
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| Recipe for Living | |
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| I Am Your Wife | |
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| Love Is Kind | |
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| Content | |
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| These Are Not Lost | |
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| Need of Loving | |
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| I Would Be True | |
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| Why Do I Live? | |
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| Let's Forget | |
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| For Those Who Fail | |
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| For Love's Sake Only | |
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| Rebirth | |
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| Just to Be Needed | |
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| Count Ten | |
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| A Prayer for Faith | |
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| The World We Make | |
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| Mediation No. 2979 | |
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| Tank God! | |
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| Be Patient | |
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| A Dog's Vigil | |
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| The Dreams Ahead | |
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| Sons of Promise | |
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| Friends | |
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| Mediation No. 7398 | |
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| Two Prayers | |
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| We Kiss'd Again with Tears, from "The Princess" | |
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| Let Him Return | |
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| Discovery | |
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| True to the Best | |
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| Little Roads to Happiness | |
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| The Tongue | |
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| At Sunrise | |
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| Question Not | |
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| Understanding | |
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| I Am Still Rich | |
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| I Know Something Good about You | |
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| Was, Is, and Yet-to-be | |
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| Blessed Are They | |
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| A Country Town, selection | |
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| Giving | |
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| Work for Small Men, selection | |
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| The Power of Prayer | |
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| Mother | |
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| My Friends Are Little Lamps to Me | |
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| Moderation | |
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| Translation of Horace (Odes Book II) | |
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| To My Friend | |
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| Visit the Sick | |
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| An Angry Word | |
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| Guide-posts on the Footpath to Peace | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Authors | |
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| Index of Titles | |
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| Index of First Lines | |