“Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,
When you, you wonder why, love none.
We love, Fool, for the good we do,
Not that which unto us is done!”

—  Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto VI, IV A Riddle Solved.
The Angel In The House (1854)

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English poet 1823–1896

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