"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
"A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell."
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Source: Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.149
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