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About Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook was a 19th-century English author and poet. Eliza Cook was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Friendship — Celebrating the bonds of loyalty, trust, and companionship

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“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
— Eliza Cook
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“Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.”
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“I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.”
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“Who would not rather trust and be deceived?”
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“There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.”
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“A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.”
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