15 March The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
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Published on this day
- 1835 Paracelsus by Robert Browning
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