“Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none.”

— Adelaide Anne Procter

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 409.

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English poet and songwriter 1825–1864

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