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«He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.»
«Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.»
«Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.»
«The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.»
«If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?»
«How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on»
«A jug fills drop by drop.»
«The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one»
«If God dropped acid, would he see people?»
«Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.»