Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). Guardian Angel, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). Guardian Angel, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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