Those are red-letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine poem, people whose handshake is brimful of unspoken sympathy, and whose sweet, rich natures impart to our eager, impatient spirits a wonderful restfulness which, in its essence, is divine.
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- The Story of My Life (1903), chapter XXIII; Complete sentence from Keller’s reflection on people whose companionship brings rest and sympathy. Chapter context read; her autobiographical prose, not John Albert Macy’s commentary or another speaker’s quotation. Public domain.
- The Story of My Life (1903), chapter XXIII
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