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"I have written this letter full of nothingness; I will be more settled the next time and do better.

Send all your love to me--think more of heaven and we shall grow happier.

If once celestial love has touched us, we cannot rest until it dwells and abides in our hearts.
To you all I send my warmest and purest love .-- ISAAC." "Concord, May 2, 1844 .-- Dear Friends: It was my intention not to write home until I had received a letter from you; but as none has yet come, and I am in want of a few things, I will write you immediately.
"You can scarcely imagine how different my life is now from what it was at home.

It is like living in another world.

It is possible that you might not be suited with the conditions here, but to me they are the very ones which are congenial to my present state of being.