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The tears don’t hurt me like that ache did. Stay here for a little while with me and keep your arm round me--so.

She had learned to know how comforting a smile, even from a stranger, may be.

We’ve got each other, Anne. I don’t know what I’d do if you weren’t here--if you’d never come.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Jane, I will be your brother—my sisters will be your sisters—without stipulating for this sacrifice of your just rights.

This was wealth indeed!—wealth to the heart!—a mine of pure, genial affections.

Anyone who is kind wants to know when people have been made happy. They care for that more than for being thanked.

If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

Throughout all that first night spent in the garret, she had felt a vague comfort in knowing that on the other side of the wall in which the rats scuffled and squeaked there was another young human creature. And during the nights that followed the sense of comfort grew.