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"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace."
Leigh Hunt / Abou Ben Adhem.
Abou Ben Adhem.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Write me as one who loves his fellow-men."
Leigh Hunt / Abou Ben Adhem.
Abou Ben Adhem.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest."
Leigh Hunt / Abou Ben Adhem.
Abou Ben Adhem.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!"
Leigh Hunt / Politics and Poetics.
Politics and Poetics.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks."
Leigh Hunt / The Story of Rimini.
The Story of Rimini.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain