"We search the world for truth;
We cull the good, the pure, the beautiful,
From all old flower fields of the soul;
And weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said,
Is in the book our mothers read."
John Greenleaf Whittier
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier
The photograph is of Louisa Hooper Stewart, 1818-1918 http://www.stokenewingtonquakers.org.uk/nbhist1.html
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