"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."

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"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."

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Reflection

"And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything."

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