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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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