Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its tremblin…

Emily Dickinson
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). The Letters of Emily Dickinson, p.594, Harvard University Press
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