Hope is impossible unless we experience empathy and identif… - John Townsend Trowbridge

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Hope is impossible unless we experience empathy and identification. We cannot feel hopeful that things will be OK unless someone understands what we are going through and gets it.

John Townsend Trowbridge

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John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 – February 12, 1916) was a popular American author born in Ogden, New York to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His papers are located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

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Alternative Names: John T. Trowbridge • J. T. Trowbridge • Paul Creyton

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Men are polished, through act and speech,
Each by each,
As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

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With years a richer life begins,
The spirit mellows:
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Wine, and good fellows.

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