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i love you for what you are,
but i love you more for what you are going to be.
i love you not so much for your realities
as for your ideals.
i pray for your desires that they may be great
rather than for your satisfactions,
which may be so hazardously little.
you are going forward to something great.
i am on the way with you
and therefore i love you.
- carl sandburg
