"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."
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"O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen."
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