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For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! John Greenleaf Whittier		Thursday Jan 01, 2026
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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle

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	Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
	(1801-1866) Letter, 21 Oct 1859; in The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1970 - Scottish daughter of physician, writer at age 14, married Thomas Carlyle 1826.

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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.