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True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity

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Henry David Thoreau
1817 –
1862

True kindness is a pure divine affinity,
Not founded upon human consanguinity
It is a spirit, not a blood relation,
Superior to family and station

This poem is in the public domain.