Thanks to all who have posted to this thread thus far.

Now that I've been resuscitated-in a manner of speaking-I'll add a few more circles to this word collage.

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Here's one of my favorite poems:

He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout—
But love and I had the wit to win—
We drew a circle that took him in.
-Edwin Markham

And here's another poem by Edwin Markham that I like, though I would respectfully amend it so that it refers to both genders:

There is a destiny that makes us brothers
None goes his way alone
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.
-Edwin Markham

http://www.quotesandpoem.com/quotes/showquotes/author/edwin_markham/115803