"O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, And on the foolish fretting of our care Lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!"
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Silence, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Julia Caroline Dorr
1825 – 1913
Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr (1825 – 1913) was an American author who published both prose and poetry.
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