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“my friends have come to me unsought. the great God gave them to me. by oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the deity in me and in them…” -- emerson
“behold the plant within the seed, enchanted form, as yet unfreed. growth gently pushes root and shoot, forming leaves, and flowers, and fruit. gaily adorned with colours fair, ornamenting earth and air. so develops, so unfolds all that once its heart did hold.” -- ruckert