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The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that t

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. – Francis Thompson

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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. – Francis Thompson

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If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. – Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)

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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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