People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.Maria Mitchell
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
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