The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
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Music is the poetry of the air.
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Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us.
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